Oops, the test I did in the second test is bogus (I didn't test as root). However, it appears that owner validation is properly disabled: [inside the pulled guix] > scheme@(guix-user)> ,m (guix git) > scheme@(guix git)> (owner-validation?) --> #true > scheme@(guix git)> (with-libgit2 (owner-validation?)) --> #false Greetings, Maxime.