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nixos/buildkite: drop user option #78160

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This reverts 8c6b1c3.
It was never part of the release notes, and only was an additional option
that existed for some days in master.

Turns out, buildkite-agent has logic to write .ssh/known_hosts files and
only really works when $HOME and the user homedir are in sync.

On top of that, we provision ssh keys in /var/lib/buildkite-agent, which
doesn't work if that other users' homedir points elsewhere (we can cheat
by setting $HOME, but then getent and $HOME provide conflicting
results).

So after all, it's better to only run the system-wide buildkite agent as
the "buildkite-agent" user only - if one wants to run buildkite as
different users, systemd user services might be a better fit.

This also extends the vm test to test both deploying a ssh key and not
deploying one.

Things done
  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

This reverts 8c6b1c3.

Turns out, buildkite-agent has logic to write .ssh/known_hosts files and
only really works when $HOME and the user homedir are in sync.

On top of that, we provision ssh keys in /var/lib/buildkite-agent, which
doesn't work if that other users' homedir points elsewhere (we can cheat
by setting $HOME, but then getent and $HOME provide conflicting
results).

So after all, it's better to only run the system-wide buildkite agent as
the "buildkite-agent" user only - if one wants to run buildkite as
different users, systemd user services might be a better fit.
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