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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35341: Guix System installer does not set up passwords and
	profile directories
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:02:03 +0200
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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 35341-done@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> I installed Guix System from a USB flash drive from the current git
> master.  The manual describes I should set up a password with passwd.
> I think the installer should automate this, so users do not need to
> know the passwd command.

I=E2=80=99ll open a separate bug for that.

> After setting a password with `passwd florian` and logging in
> as florian, I run `guix pull`.  This yields the following error:
>
> pull: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/floria=
n': Permission denied
> hint: Please create the `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/florian' directory, =
with you
> as the owner.

Oh, got it.

On a fresh system (one can check with =E2=80=98guix system vm bare-bones.tm=
pl=E2=80=99
for instance), /var/guix/profiles/per-user is 555 and root-owned, so not
writable.

Then, the first time a client such as =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 connec=
ts to the
daemon, the daemon chmods /var/guix/profiles/per-user to 777
(world-writable), see local-store.cc:89.

Next, =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 calls =E2=80=98ensure-default-profile=
=E2=80=99, which creates
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER.

The problem with =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 is that it would call
=E2=80=98ensure-default-profile=E2=80=99 before it has connected to the dae=
mon.

Fixed in a06a95baffc2005ad1a64c4c3f82fc328e0d0009.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.