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Subject: Re: Compiling guix 0.3 on a fedora 8 planetlab node
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Matthias Wachs <wachs@net.in.tum.de> skribis:
>
>>> How did it complain exactly?  Is it running as =E2=80=98root=E2=80=99, =
as per
>>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemo=
n>?
>>>=20
>>> The ability to run build processes in a chroot and under separate UIDs
>>> is essential to achieve reproducibility.
>>
>> The basic issue is:=20
>> I cannot add a builder group since on these machines I don't have the
>> "groupadd" command ... limitations of the image/testbed
>
> You may have =E2=80=98addgroup=E2=80=99 instead, no?

Failing that, you could manually edit /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}.

     Mark