Dick Middleton <dick@fouter.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> 	Just started playing with Guix and am trying to get ssh to start as a service.
>
> My system is configured using the standard desktop example config.scm given
> with the installation.
>
> I'm trying to add the relevant bits from the simple example in reference guide
>   "7.2.1 Using the Configuration System".
>
> i.e I've added:
>
> (use-service-modules networking ssh)
> ...
> (services (cons* (lsh-service) %base-services))
>
> guix reconfigure complains with this error: ssh-daemon requires 'networking'
> which is undefined.
>
> Do I have to install something (why is it not already installed?) or am I
> doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dick

This sounds similar to issues I ran into with a headless server running
GuixSD a month or so ago (have since switched to Guix/Debian).

I ended up with lsh-service providing sshd (the ssh server) and openssh
providing ssh (the ssh client).

The config is split with sshd in the system config and ssh in the
per-user config.

There may be a more sane approach, but this did work and, FWIW, I have
attached the actual configs.

HTH, - George