bug#41238: closed (guix deploy close ssh session after each store items sent)

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regarding guix deploy close ssh session after each store items sent
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> guix deploy close ssh session after each store items sent
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> Wed, 13 May 2020 16:32:55 +0000
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> Hey Guix,
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> “guix deploy” bugs; they keep coming! “guix deploy” doesn't make use of 
> SSH
> channels[0], instead it close the SSH session each time after sending 
> store
> items. This may be unnoticeable by users using a password-less SSH key
> (bad!) or an SSH agent (better!) but for the other it mean entering the
> password ~5 times per host per deployment which get old very quick. In 
> my
> case I use a keycard that require me to physically interact with it for
> each authentication request, it means multiple touch per deployment,
> reducing it just one would be a great relief.
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> [0]: 
> https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/blob/b11182d5582844df0c8d1fcb7177ff85f8ac3bcd/doc/api-sessions.texi#L17
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> - Brice
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> Re: bug#41238: guix deploy close ssh session after each store items sent
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> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:08:51 +0100
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> Hello Guix,
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> Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re> writes:
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> > “guix deploy” bugs; they keep coming! “guix deploy” doesn't make use of SSH
> > channels[0], instead it close the SSH session each time after sending store
> > items.
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> [...]
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> Ludo‘ fixed the issue with the commit 7f20e59a13a6acc3331e04185b8f1ed2538dcd0a.
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> For posterity, here is the workaround I was using a few month ago and is now
> unecessary. The session filed needed to be manually set with a call to
> "openssh-ssh-session" from (guix ssh):
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (machine-ssh-configuration
>   (host-name "foo")
>   (system "x86_64-linux")
>   (session (open-ssh-session "foo" #:user "root"))
>   (host-key "..."))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> Currently the following suffice:
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (machine-ssh-configuration
>   (host-name "foo")
>   (system "x86_64-linux")
>   (user "root") 
>   (host-key "..."))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> Cheers,
> - Brice
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