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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 39819@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39819: Declarative /etc/guix/acl?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:53:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9ffppvf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0vxaumm.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:07:29 +0200")

Hi,

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
> Hello!
>
>> For some reason, /etc/guix/acl is not declarative on Guix System: we let
>> users modify it and assume it’s stateful, which can surprise users as in
>> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39819>.
>>
>> Should we make it declarative, just like most of /etc?  I think so.
>
> Yes, I think so too.

OK.

> However, if you have your own substitute server, you now can run guix
> archive --authorize < ..., e.g. at bootstrap/install time.  For such
> cases, IWBN to have a --authorized-key argument to guix build / guix
> system.

There’s already an ‘authorized-keys’ field in ‘guix-configuration’:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Base-Services.html#index-guix_002dconfiguration

So you would just list keys there.  Is that what you have in mind?

The option is already there, it’s just non-authoritative.

Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-12 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-28  4:30 bug#39819: guix-service-type authorized keys are not honored when /etc/guix/acl exists Maxim Cournoyer
2020-02-28  4:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
     [not found] ` <87v9fhf3my.fsf@inria.fr>
2020-10-11 11:00   ` bug#39819: Declarative /etc/guix/acl? Efraim Flashner
     [not found]   ` <87k0vxaumm.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-10-12 12:53     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20201021150823.20508-1-ludo@gnu.org>
2020-10-21 15:08     ` bug#39819: [PATCH 2/2] doc: Add "Getting Substitutes from Other Servers" section Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]     ` <87tuujgr23.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-10-25  5:59       ` bug#39819: [PATCH 1/2] services: guix: Make /etc/guix/acl really declarative by default Jan Nieuwenhuizen

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