Subject: Re: bug#27388: offloading: Add support for keyfile-less keys as used by GnuPG

From: ng0 <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 19:13:59 +0000

ng0 transcribed 2.3K bytes:
> At the moment the field (private-key) in /etc/guix/machines.scm expects
> to be a file.
> When you use GnuPG authentication keys for ssh logins, you have no
> pubkey file, but you have a very long pubkey which can be used with
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and similar mechanisms.
> 
> Example:
> 
> user@abyayala ~/src/guix/guix$ cat /etc/guix/machines.scm
> (list (build-machine
>       …
>        (privat-key "ssh-rsa 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 (none)")
>       …

Actually this might be the wrong approach.

The key you see above is the public key equivalent to the ssh pubkey.
The private key is only in the GnuPG keyring.

Solution for this kind of situations are welcome. For now I'll use
ssh pubkeys.
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