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authorLars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org>2020-02-19 11:13:54 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-02-20 11:14:44 +0100
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ssh: Add Kerberos-support to ssh:// daemon URLs
* guix/ssh.scm (open-ssh-session): Fall back to GSSAPI if public key
authentication does not work

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -6811,8 +6811,9 @@ instruct it to listen for TCP connections (@pxref{Invoking guix-daemon,
 @item ssh
 @cindex SSH access to build daemons
 These URIs allow you to connect to a remote daemon over
-SSH@footnote{This feature requires Guile-SSH (@pxref{Requirements}).}.
-A typical URL might look like this:
+SSH. This feature requires Guile-SSH (@pxref{Requirements}) and a working
+@code{guile} binary in @code{PATH} on the destination machine. It supports
+public key and GSSAPI authentication. A typical URL might look like this:
 
 @example
 ssh://charlie@@guix.example.org:22