drop deploy_as_root check

We haven't documented macOS support yet, so I don't expect many people
using it yet. Now that the pull request is merged probably most people
starting with darwin-nix will be on that commit anyway, so it's not
worth the check, given that the sudo version doesn't work very well.

pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/machines/machines.py

@@ -9,10 +9,9 @@ from functools import cached_property
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
-from clan_lib.cmd import Log, RunOpts, run
 from clan_lib.errors import ClanCmdError, ClanError
 from clan_lib.flake import Flake
-from clan_lib.nix import nix_config, nix_eval, nix_test_store
+from clan_lib.nix import nix_config, nix_test_store
 
 from clan_cli.facts import public_modules as facts_public_modules
 from clan_cli.facts import secret_modules as facts_secret_modules
@@ -179,27 +178,6 @@ class Machine:
         ) as build_host:
             yield build_host
 
-    @cached_property
-    def deploy_as_root(self) -> bool:
-        if self._class_ == "nixos":
-            return True
-
-        # Currently nix-darwin HEAD requires you to deploy as a non-root user
-        # however there is a soon to be merged PR that requires deployment
-        # as root to match NixOS: https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin/pull/1341
-        return json.loads(
-            run(
-                nix_eval(
-                    [
-                        f"{self.flake}#darwinConfigurations.{self.name}.options.system",
-                        "--apply",
-                        "system: system ? primaryUser",
-                    ]
-                ),
-                RunOpts(log=Log.NONE),
-            ).stdout.strip()
-        )
-
     def nix(
         self,
         attr: str,

pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/machines/update.py

@@ -109,11 +109,6 @@ def deploy_machine(machine: Machine) -> None:
         target_host = stack.enter_context(machine.target_host())
         build_host = stack.enter_context(machine.build_host())
 
-        if machine._class_ == "darwin":
-            if not machine.deploy_as_root and target_host.user == "root":
-                msg = f"'targetHost' should be set to a non-root user for deploying to nix-darwin on machine '{machine.name}'"
-                raise ClanError(msg)
-
         host = build_host or target_host
 
         generate_facts([machine], service=None, regenerate=False)
@@ -138,7 +133,7 @@ def deploy_machine(machine: Machine) -> None:
             f"{path}#{machine.name}",
         ]
 
-        become_root = machine.deploy_as_root
+        become_root = True
 
         if machine._class_ == "nixos":
             nix_options += [