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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: no passwd command during installation
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:16:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87375qcuu3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171101215852.6eab2d53@graviton.instanton> (Marco van Hulten's message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2017 21:58:52 +0100")

Hi,

Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> skribis:

> Then I want to set the root password.  The manual tells me to use
> passwd, but Bash returns "command not found".  There is also no
> ssh-keygen to create SSH keys.

The ‘passwd’ command was added quite recently to the installation image
(it’ll be in the forthcoming release):

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=903ae630a0ae0df9fabd5ebab7d44577d6e7d0fc

In the meantime, you’ll have to use one of the workarounds people
suggested.

Thanks for your report,
Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-07  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-01 20:58 no passwd command during installation Marco van Hulten
2017-11-02  1:09 ` Wayne DePrince Jr.
2017-11-02  5:59 ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-02  8:34   ` Marco van Hulten
2017-11-02  9:58     ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-02 10:14       ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-07  9:16 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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