Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.

[ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>]

Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> Hi Clément,
> 
> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
> 
> > I think there is a misunderstanding.  I didn't want to push this because
> > it was not tested, and because subsystems are often useless without
> > Match, and Match is unsupported.  The pair/list thing is not the
> > problem.
> >
> > And I was waiting for ng0 to test, because he asked for this patch (see
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-02/msg00906.html), so
> > I thought he was able to test.
> >
> > If ng0 still needs the patch and confirms that it works well, I'm
> > willing to update it.  Otherwise, let's drop it.
> 
> The patch looks like a useful addition.  It would be sad to drop it, no?
> 
> If you could add a test to (gnu tests ssh) that would be perfect, but
> otherwise it LGTM.  Perhaps the default value for ‘subsystems’ should
> include internal-sftp though, as users probably expect sftp to just work.
> 
> I don’t have any issue with using two-element lists; I think the syntax
> for pairs can be a bit confusing for newcomers to it’s probably better
> to avoid it in service configuration.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 

I'm taking a break currently and only deal with planing things or
documenting work and future Guix related work, so I won't test this in
the next 1 or 2 weeks.
I am fairly sure that sshfs still needs this.

ps Clément: 'them'/'they' are pronouns if you don't know the gender and/or
prefered pronoun of a person :)