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Quoting Ludovic Court=E8s <ludo@gnu.org>:

>
> As it turns out, ?root? is initialized with an empty password, and for
> other users, you shouldn?t use the ?password? field of up
> ?user-account?.
>
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/User-Accounts.html>
> tries to make that clear, but perhaps there?s misleading info somewhere?


Ah, ok. The only reason I thought it might be wrong was because it =20
didn't work right away. I actually figured out the problem (the lack =20
of a home directory) as I was writing the email.

> Also, the user?s home directory should definitely be created
> automatically.

My partition layout has separate /, /home, /boot. I specified these in =20
config.scm, but should I have also mounted them (or at least /home) =20
before system init?

Thanks,

Andy