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authorValentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>2023-05-31 02:05:05 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-05-31 02:05:05 +0200
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Merge pull request #8413 from doronbehar/doc/distributed-builds/clearer-warning
distributed-builds.md: Clarify warning ssh access requirements
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@@ -38,11 +38,9 @@ contains Nix.
> **Warning**
>
-> If you are building via the Nix daemon, it is the Nix daemon user
-> account (that is, `root`) that should have SSH access to the remote
-> machine. If you can’t or don’t want to configure `root` to be able to
-> access to remote machine, you can use a private Nix store instead by
-> passing e.g. `--store ~/my-nix`.
+> If you are building via the Nix daemon, it is the Nix daemon user account (that is, `root`) that should have SSH access to a user (not necessarily `root`) on the remote machine.
+>
+> If you can’t or don’t want to configure `root` to be able to access the remote machine, you can use a private Nix store instead by passing e.g. `--store ~/my-nix` when running a Nix command from the local machine.
The list of remote machines can be specified on the command line or in
the Nix configuration file. The former is convenient for testing. For