home: services: ssh-agent: Handle setting of SSH_AUTH_SOCK.

* gnu/home/services/ssh.scm (home-ssh-agent-environment-variables): New
procedure.
(home-ssh-agent-service-type): Use it as ahome-environment-service type
extension.
* doc/guix.texi (Secure Shell): Remove advice about, and examples of setting
SSH_AUTH_SOCK.
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Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen 2023-03-17 12:40:16 +01:00 committed by Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
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@ -42473,23 +42473,6 @@ machines using the @acronym{SSH, secure shell} protocol. With the
@code{(gnu home services ssh-agent)} service, you can configure the
OpenSSH ssh-agent to run upon login.
When using the @code{home-ssh-agent-service-type}, you need to add your
@file{~/.bash_profile}:
@example
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$@{XDG_RUNTIME_DIR-$HOME/.cache@}/ssh-agent/socket
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
@end example
Of course, you can do that using the @code{home-bash-service-type}, by
adding something like:
@lisp
(environment-variables
'(("SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
. "$@{SSH_AUTH_SOCK-$@{XDG_RUNTIME_DIR-$HOME/.cache@}/ssh-agent/socket@}")))
@end lisp
Here is an example of a service and its configuration that you could add
to the @code{services} field of your @code{home-environment}:

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@ -295,12 +295,18 @@ (define (home-ssh-agent-services config)
(fork+exec-command #$command #:log-file #$log-file)))
(stop #~(make-kill-destructor)))))))
(define (home-ssh-agent-environment-variables config)
'(("SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
. "${SSH_AUTH_SOCK-${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR-$HOME/.cache}/ssh-agent/socket}")))
(define home-ssh-agent-service-type
(service-type
(name 'home-ssh-agent)
(default-value (home-ssh-agent-configuration))
(extensions
(list (service-extension home-shepherd-service-type
home-ssh-agent-services)))
home-ssh-agent-services)
(service-extension home-environment-variables-service-type
home-ssh-agent-environment-variables)))
(description
"Install and configure @command{ssh-agent} as a Shepherd service.")))