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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.md b/doc/manual/src/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.md index fefd10100..8f61380e8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.md @@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ 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 +> 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 to remote machine, you can use a private Nix store instead by -> passing e.g. `--store ~/my-nix`. +> 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 |