discussion: root password switch for next guixsd release

[ng0 <ng0@n0.is>]

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Hi,

building my clone army of Gentoo Penguins I came to appreciate that you can
start a Gentoo setup with boot parameters like:

gentoo dosshd passwd=foo

for an remote setup, so you can just ssh to the IP of the VM and do the setup.

Could we target a similar behavior for GuixSD for the next release,
where people could pass at least a password to startup parameters?

I know about the problems with lsh vs openssh, but maybe this could
be made switchable too, like:

provide a grub menu where you can either directly pass arguments or

Entry 1: Start GuixSD with openssh
Entry 2: Start GuixSD with lsh


the root password could be appended somehow via edia entry, in this
theoretical land of possibilities.
Being used to "every lack of feature or enhancement request is a bug"
of Gentoo I would open a bug to track this, but maybe this can be put
on the roadmap, to track it there as "remote setup enabled guixsd image"?

It's not necessary for the next version, but for a 1.0, productive for
server environments (and `guix deploy`) that's one of the many features
which are on my wishlist.


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