Re: SSH error guix pull

[Mauritz Stenek]

On 2023-12-07 at 14:57, Wojtek Kosior <koszko@koszko.org> wrote:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> > > 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.

I think you might be on to something -- scouring the internet, 
libgit2 seems to be the culprit.

> 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

Thanks for your all your help. What I have now works, which, is 
sufficient for now (I hope).

A couple of things more I want to check, and that's it: I'm 
migrating to a full Guix system.


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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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