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

From: ng0 <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:16:56 +0000

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> 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.
> -- 
> ng0
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Ignore the second message in this thread. I tried to provide
a possible solution which lead to the believe that this is
considered solved. It isn't. This wishlist bug is still wanted.
-- 
ng0
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