Re: Demystifying SSH configuration for remote software forges on Guix System

[Ashvith Shetty]

Hello Ludovic,

Thank you for your reply. I was able to resolve this by adding `openssh` to the system configuration, and `home-openssh` as well as `home-ssh-agent` to the home configuration respectively.

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 9:59 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi,

Ashvith Shetty <ashvithshetty10@gmail.com> skribis:

> And finally, I've come across `home-openssh-service-type` - which I've yet
> to try, but reading from the docs, am I supposed to put my private and
> public keys in the repository? How do I go about this? Isn't that a
> security risk?

Never ever put private keys in a repo.

I use ‘home-gpg-agent-service-type’ as my SSH agent:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/GNU-Privacy-Guard.html

If you already use Guix Home, you can set it up by adding a few lines to
your Home config, along the lines of the example in the manual above.

If you don’t, you could start ‘gpg-agent --ssh-support’ or ‘ssh-agent’
manually, for example from ~/.xsession or similar startup file.

HTH!

Ludo’.