From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: discussion: root password switch for next guixsd release Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:24:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20160612002447.GA21956@jasmine> References: <20160607101702.GA3927@khazad-dum> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBtDA-0001m4-20 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:25:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBtD5-0004ef-S2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:25:06 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:59784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBtD3-0004c9-Iy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:25:03 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [65.210.89.2]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B3C95CC01B for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:24:47 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160607101702.GA3927@khazad-dum> 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" To: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:17:02AM +0000, ng0 wrote: > Could we target a similar behavior for GuixSD for the next release, > where people could pass at least a password to startup parameters? I don't understand your use case fully, but would it suffice to provide the password in the operation system declaration, as described in 7.5.2 User Accounts? https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/User-Accounts.html#User-Accounts