Proxy only work with root access

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$ export https_proxy=socks5://xxx:port
$ nix build .  # proxy does not work

root# export https_proxy=socks5://xxx:port
root# nix build .  # work

proxy setting for normal user does not work, nix build . does not download success, but if I setting proxy with root acount, and build with root account, the proxy will work.
Does anyone meet this issue?

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When building as root, you bypass the daemon. To set the proxy for user builds, you should set it for the daemon (it its systemd file probably).

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so is there any example to set the daemon’s proxy?

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nix-daemon is a regular systemd service so you can use this option to set environment variables for it: NixOS Search - Loading...

 systemd.services.nix-daemon.environment.https_proxy = "socks5://foo";
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