73 lines
2.4 KiB
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73 lines
2.4 KiB
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ssec-ssh-substituter">
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<title>Serving a Nix store via SSH</title>
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<para>You can tell Nix to automatically fetch needed binaries from a
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remote Nix store via SSH. For example, the following installs Firefox,
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automatically fetching any store paths in Firefox’s closure if they
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are available on the server <literal>avalon</literal>:
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<screen>
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$ nix-env -i firefox --option ssh-substituter-hosts alice@avalon
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</screen>
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This works similar to the binary cache substituter that Nix usually
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uses, only using SSH instead of HTTP: if a store path
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<literal>P</literal> is needed, Nix will first check if it’s available
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in the Nix store on <literal>avalon</literal>. If not, it will fall
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back to using the binary cache substituter, and then to building from
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source.</para>
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<note><para>The SSH substituter currently does not allow you to enter
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an SSH passphrase interactively. Therefore, you should use
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<command>ssh-add</command> to load the decrypted private key into
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<command>ssh-agent</command>.</para></note>
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<para>You can also copy the closure of some store path, without
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installing it into your profile, e.g.
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<screen>
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$ nix-store -r /nix/store/m85bxg…-firefox-34.0.5 --option ssh-substituter-hosts alice@avalon
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</screen>
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This is essentially equivalent to doing
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<screen>
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$ nix-copy-closure --from alice@avalon /nix/store/m85bxg…-firefox-34.0.5
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</screen>
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</para>
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<para>You can use SSH’s <emphasis>forced command</emphasis> feature to
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set up a restricted user account for SSH substituter access, allowing
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read-only access to the local Nix store, but nothing more. For
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example, add the following lines to <filename>sshd_config</filename>
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to restrict the user <literal>nix-ssh</literal>:
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<programlisting>
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Match User nix-ssh
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AllowAgentForwarding no
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AllowTcpForwarding no
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PermitTTY no
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PermitTunnel no
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X11Forwarding no
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ForceCommand nix-store --serve
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Match All
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</programlisting>
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On NixOS, you can accomplish the same by adding the following to your
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<filename>configuration.nix</filename>:
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<programlisting>
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nix.sshServe.enable = true;
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nix.sshServe.keys = [ "ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1k... bob@example.org" ];
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</programlisting>
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where the latter line lists the public keys of users that are allowed
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to connect.</para>
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</section>
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