From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Manage ssh public keys?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:24:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egnsdpsf.fsf@fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bniwm5cy.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> As discussed on IRC, there are several issues, such as the choice of the
>>> SSH implementation (lshd uses ‘lsh-authorize’ to add authorized keys,
>>> not ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.) That complicates things.
>>>
>>> However, as David suggests, we could have a per-account list of files to
>>> install. I can imagine something like:
>>>
>>> (user-account
>>> (name "joe")
>>> ;; ...
>>> (files `((".ssh/authorized_keys" ,(local-file "my-authorized-keys"))
>>> (".emacs.d/foo.el" ,(local-file "foo.el")))))
>>>
>>> Now, how should that be handled upon ‘reconfigure’? By just overriding
>>> those files? Probably, I guess.
>>>
>>> Also, should they be symlinks to the store or copies?
>> How about use symlinks, but:
>> - create them if they are not exists.
>> - update them if they are symlinks to /gnu/store.
>> - warn and do nothing about them if they aren't symlinks to store.
>
> The problem is that that would be stateful, and thus not reproducible.
> So I think conditionals like this are not desirable.
+1
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-10 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-09 1:01 Manage ssh public keys? Joe Hillenbrand
2015-04-09 11:51 ` David Thompson
2015-04-09 12:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-09 15:34 ` Joe Hillenbrand
2015-04-09 19:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-10 9:28 ` 宋文武
2015-04-10 14:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-10 14:24 ` David Thompson [this message]
2015-04-10 16:47 ` Joe Hillenbrand
2015-04-10 20:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-10 20:45 ` David Thompson
2015-04-11 19:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
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