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From: Wojtek Kosior via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: Mauritz Stenek <mstenek@disroot.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SSH error guix pull
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 21:57:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231207215715.5a35e906.koszko@koszko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfyl3g55.fsf@disroot.org>

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> > Nevertheless, I guess a
> > hypothetical solution would be to allow Guix to — when desired — 
> > call
> > SSH with access to its TTY/PTY :)  
> 
> Would you mind showing me how?

Oh, that'd be hard…  I meant modification to some internal code that
spawns an SSH process.  So that when certain CLI option is passed, Guix
does this without substituting stdin/stdout/stderr file descriptors.

Actually, I'm not even 100% sure the substitution is controlled
directly by Guix — it might be in libgit which IIRC is used for cloning
here.

Anyway, this improvement would require digging deep into either Guix or
libgit. That's why I called it hypothetical — because it is too much
work to consider here :)

Anyway, if you're inclined to work around the problem, you might want
to experiment with the SSH_ASKPASS and SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE environment
variables.  So that you're asked to enter the password in a GUI.
See `man ssh` for more info about these vars

Happy Hacking!
Wojtek


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On Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:33:18 -0600 Mauritz Stenek <mstenek@disroot.org> wrote:

> Nevertheless, I guess 
> > a
> > hypothetical solution would be to allow Guix to — when desired — 
> > call
> > SSH with access to its TTY/PTY :)  
> 
> Would you mind showing me how?

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-07 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-01  1:47 SSH error guix pull Mauritz Stenek
2023-12-01 13:12 ` Wojtek Kosior via
2023-12-01 18:37   ` Mauritz Stenek
2023-12-01 20:07     ` Wojtek Kosior via
2023-12-05 17:44       ` Mauritz Stenek
2023-12-05 19:28         ` Wojtek Kosior via
2023-12-07 20:33           ` Mauritz Stenek
2023-12-07 20:57             ` Wojtek Kosior via [this message]
2023-12-07 21:02               ` Mauritz Stenek

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