From: "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <gnu@clacke.user.lysator.liu.se>
To: David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user (Was: [PATCH] syscalls: setns: Skip binding if there is no such C function.)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:45:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGv_=BoXi4EYw_1cYrqXAMdmh0U3bQXwfNbBGxdP73B6dQAYoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGv_=BrsFUpTWA9bHOE44mXPyOsQc0p8bjc9_D6PCK529Y96hQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
<gnu@clacke.user.lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> [Reposting with correct sender. Sorry, David.]
>
> Great! I ran into this when trying to compile and run guix on a machine at
> work, where I'm not root.
>
> I was planning to run guix as a stow of steroids. But I'm still wondering
> whether what I'm attempting is even intended to be possible? Of course, I
> would lose the benefits of user separation, chroot, hydra (because I can't
> write to /gnu) etc, but is guix even made to be able to downgrade to this
> situation?
Answering myself: It is there in the Fine Manual. So it's intended to
work. I will try this and see how far I come.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Build-Environment-Setup
"If you are installing Guix as an unprivileged user, it is still
possible to run guix-daemon provided you pass --disable-chroot."
--
/c
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[not found] <CAGv_=BpttjfOoLxnox7UsU+gDoZo8+vKDhiXuCyxZLhat0Jcjw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-16 13:57 ` Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user (Was: [PATCH] syscalls: setns: Skip binding if there is no such C function.) Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-16 14:01 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-17 12:45 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) [this message]
2015-08-17 8:33 ` Eric Bavier
2015-08-17 13:42 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-17 14:27 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-17 14:31 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-17 15:23 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-17 14:34 ` Thompson, David
2015-08-17 15:16 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-17 15:25 ` Thompson, David
2015-08-17 15:35 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-23 17:28 ` Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-17 20:46 ` Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user (Was: [PATCH] syscalls: setns: Skip binding if there is no such C function.) Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-17 20:57 ` Eric Bavier
2015-08-17 23:07 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-18 11:14 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-08-23 17:31 ` Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user Ludovic Courtès
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