nixos-rebuild: add option --use-remote-sudo-activate
#109046
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Motivation for this change
Current option
--use-remote-sudo
doesn't work when remotesudo
asking for password.And it also cause all command to be prefixed by
sudo
, including commands for building, copying and querying,which usually doesn't need root permission at all.
In this PR:
--use-remote-sudo-activate
for minimal usage of sudo, which only acquire root permission on activation related commands.-t
for ssh whensudo
is used. This is needed whensudo
asking for password.Tested commands
test
andboot
with--target-host --use-remote-sudo-activate
.Related commits:
Things done
sandbox
innix.conf
on non-NixOS linux)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
./result/bin/
)nix path-info -S
before and after)