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From: "Léo Le Bouter" <lle-bout@zaclys.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Secure GNU Guix offloading
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:12:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e51f5fd16670715e0865688d1a2bad6f80f0fcd3.camel@zaclys.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wntphwsb.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 10:26 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> skribis:
> 
> > I don't want to give more access than what SSH non-root access
> > would
> > give, and I think it would be possible to do something helpful in
> > GNU
> > Guix offloading so it can work even without the offload machine
> > trusting the client's store public signing key.
> 
> One possibility would be to give SSH access and nothing more.  That
> would allow hackers to run:
> 
>   GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=ssh://leo.example.org guix build whatever
> 
> Users would still be able to retrieve build results from your machine
> via ‘guix copy’ or an instance of ‘guix publish’ running on the
> machine.
> 
> HTH!
> 
> Ludo’.

Thank you! I did not know setting daemon address over SSH was possible!

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-03 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-23 13:46 Secure GNU Guix offloading Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-30  8:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-03 23:12   ` Léo Le Bouter [this message]

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