From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Quiliro Ordonez Subject: nssd on foreign distro Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 08:06:04 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: quiliro@fsfla.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJL1R-0000Yq-PR for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:13:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJKub-0004g7-TE for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:06:09 -0500 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:46966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJKub-0004ca-JS for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:06:05 -0500 Received: from piha.riseup.net (piha-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACF051A043A for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 08:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by piha.riseup.net with ESMTPSA id 7E5326113D for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 08:06:04 -0800 (PST) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Name-Service-Switch-1 says we must install nss. I have done: guix package -i nss on my common user. But I do not know how to start the service. Is this package really necessary? If it is, must it be on root and not on a normal user? Or should it be installed from the foreign distro's repos?