Subject: Re: [bug#70249] [PATCH] gnu: open-ssh-session: Don’t require public key.
From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
To: Ian Eure <[email-masked]>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>, Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>, Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>, Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:32:55 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Ian Eure <[email-masked]> writes:

> * guix/scripts/offload.scm (open-ssh-session): Delete `public' binding.
> Public keys aren’t required for client connections, and this binding is
> unused.  The behavior of assuming a ".pub"-suffixed file exists in the same
> directory as the secret key is undocumented and surprising.
>
> Change-Id: I9b532be2abe68dae0323e4ef6e1ceab1e5603359
> ---
>  guix/scripts/offload.scm | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

I can't see how this binding is used either, so I've pushed this to
master as 298aed72a2a76be33f9a55bed22636acd7a4f9b9.

Chris