Attempting to Authorize Substitutes : Permission denied Issue

Attempting to Authorize Substitutes : Permission denied Issue

[Marc Dunivan]

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Following the instructions here for a binary installation on top of a GNU\Linux system I get "Permission denied" when I attempt to authorize substitutes. What permissions should hydra.gnu.org.pub have? How can i correct this issue?
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation

7.To use substitutes from hydra.gnu.org (see Substitutes), authorize them:
# guix archive --authorize < ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub

This is what happens to me:
[term ~]$ guix archive --authorize < ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
bash: /root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub: Permission denied

The same thing happens with sudo:
[term ~]$ sudo guix archive --authorize < ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
bash: /root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub: Permission denied


Respectfully,
Marc

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Re: Attempting to Authorize Substitutes : Permission denied Issue

[carl hansen]

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On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Marc Dunivan <m971668@protonmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Following the instructions here for a binary installation on top of a
> GNU\Linux system I get "Permission denied" when I attempt to authorize
> substitutes.  What permissions should hydra.gnu.org.pub have?  How can i
> correct this issue?
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation
>
> 7.To use substitutes from hydra.gnu.org (see Substitutes), authorize them:
> # guix archive --authorize <
> ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
>
> This is what happens to  me:
> [term ~]$ guix archive --authorize <
> ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
> bash: /root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub: Permission denied
>
> The same thing happens with sudo:
> [term ~]$ sudo guix archive --authorize <
> ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
> bash: /root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub: Permission denied
>
> Respectfully,
> Marc
>
>
 with sudo , sudo magic ends when you get to the <

do this:
sudo su
THEN
# guix archive --authorize <
~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub

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Re: Attempting to Authorize Substitutes : Permission denied Issue

[Marc Dunivan]

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Carl, thank you.

I didn't realize sudo only acted on the first part and stopped at <. I remembered > and | but forgot about <.

Executing su with sudo...cool! I will remember this.

[user@penguinpocketwee ~]$ sudo su

[root@penguinpocketwee user]# guix archive --authorize < ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
[root@penguinpocketwee user]# exit
exit
[user@penguinpocketwee ~]$ sudo ls -l ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1083 Dec 31 1969 /root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub


This also works for me on my GNU\Linux OS, but sudo su seems much more useful with multiple commands.
[user@penguinpocketwee ~]$ sudo -- sh -c 'guix archive --authorize < ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub'

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