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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 20381@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:47:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8y3q84k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

In <http://elephly.net/posts/2015-04-17-gnu-guix.html>, Ricardo notes:

  At some point I think it would make sense to enhance Guix such that
  RPCs can be made over SSH, so that explicit logging on to a management
  machine is no longer necessary.

We should see exactly how much support is needed.

Is ‘socat’ enough, as suggested in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00680.html>?
That means there would be no authentication, but maybe that’s acceptable
in a cluster that is isolated on its own LAN anyway.

Option #2 would be to augment (guix store) and guix-daemon so that there
is built-in support for TCP sockets, which would be slightly more
convenient.

Option #3 would be to make (guix store) SSH-capable, with Guile-SSH.
But it sounds like SSH would incur relatively high latency when
connecting to the daemon.

There remains the problem that /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER would
have to be writable to this to be useful.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

             reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 12:47 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-07-10 10:42 ` bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-10 17:48   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-10 20:24     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-25 10:24 ` Ludovic Courtès

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