Thank you both for solving this. I used a workaround for a while
(rsyncing the keys to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys). Now I can
confirm that the fixes work and I'm back to a declarative configuration
of my server, which is awesome !
Cheers,
Edouard.
Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wig...@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>>> (service-extension openssh-service-type
>>> (const `(("charlie"
>>> ,(local-file "charlie.pub")))))
>>> #+end_quote
>>
>> […]
>>
>> Seems like extend-openssh-authorized-keys procedure does not use keys
>> argument. We could fix it like:
>
> For the record, this bug (dismissing the ‘keys’ argument) was introduced
> in b4b2bbf4fb74c9f3e93d64863ab9b38957494b49 (Oct. 2021).
>
> How come nobody noticed then?
>
> The reason is that starting from
> b4b2bbf4fb74c9f3e93d64863ab9b38957494b49, ‘authorized-key-directory’
> would create an empty directory. That directory would then be copied by
> ‘openssh-activation’ to /etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d; since
> /etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d would typically already contain the relevant
> keys, nothing bad would happen.
>
> Oleg’s commit 1f29ed4a812f86c45e2d9c37fd9f80f6d0418293 introduced
> another bug though: we’d create an authorized-key directory that
> included keys brought by extensions, but each of these files would be
> empty (because ‘extend-openssh-authorized-keys’ would dismiss key files
> associated with user names), which could lock yourself out.
>
> Fixed in 0dc63ce519c5f98b2186d1871176e2fac3a6926b. Reconfiguration
> recommended before you’re locked out!
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
