From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2xhZXMgV2FsbGluICjpn4vlmInoqqAp?= 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 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRJnP-0008VG-Ex for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:45:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRJnN-0002mi-U1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:45:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Thompson Cc: guix-devel On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Claes Wallin (=E9=9F=8B=E5=98=89=E8=AA=A0) wrote: > [Reposting with correct sender. Sorry, David.] > > Great! I ran into this when trying to compile and run guix on a machine a= t > 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." --=20 /c