Experimental SSH Store

Store URL format: ssh-ng://[username@]hostname

Experimental store type that allows full access to a Nix store on a remote machine.

Settings

• base64-ssh-public-host-key

  The public host key of the remote machine.

  Default: empty

• compress

  Whether to enable SSH compression.

  Default: false

• max-connection-age

  Maximum age of a connection before it is closed.

  Default: 4294967295

• max-connections

  Maximum number of concurrent connections to the Nix daemon.

  Default: 1

• path-info-cache-size

  Size of the in-memory store path metadata cache.

  Default: 65536

• priority

  Priority of this store when used as a substituter. A lower value means a higher priority.

  Default: 0

• remote-program

  Path to the nix-daemon executable on the remote machine.

  Default: nix-daemon

• remote-store

  Store URL to be used on the remote machine. The default is auto (i.e. use the Nix daemon or /nix/store directly).

  Default: empty

• ssh-key

  Path to the SSH private key used to authenticate to the remote machine.

  Default: empty

• store

  Logical location of the Nix store, usually /nix/store. Note that you can only copy store paths between stores if they have the same store setting.

  Default: /nix/store

• system-features

  Optional system features available on the system this store uses to build derivations.

  Example: "kvm"

  Default: machine-specific

• trusted

  Whether paths from this store can be used as substitutes even if they are not signed by a key listed in the trusted-public-keys setting.

  Default: false

• want-mass-query

  Whether this store can be queried efficiently for path validity when used as a substituter.

  Default: false