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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#37162: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98guix?= pack -f
 =?UTF-8?Q?docker=E2=80=99?= creates an image without /etc/passwd
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:28:09 +0200
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To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 37162@debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>


Hi Maxim,

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:
>
>> =E2=80=98guix pack -f docker=E2=80=99 currently creates an image without
>> /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}.
>>
>> It=E2=80=99s OK most of the time, but again it looks like a gratuitous a=
nnoyance
>> for those cases where having them around matters (that=E2=80=99s also th=
e reason
>> why guix-daemon creates them.)
>
> Would that include the files required for PAM authentication to work
> correctly? I remember struggling with this use case: using the Docker
> image with CQFD wrapper, which must be able to create a user and
> sudo'ing (or 'su') to it in the docker container.

I wonder if at this point it wouldn=E2=80=99t be better to build a whole sy=
stem
container.  Isn=E2=80=99t that outside the scope of =E2=80=9Cguix pack=E2=
=80=9D and rather a
task for =E2=80=9Cguix system=E2=80=9D?

--=20
Ricardo