On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, ajpatter@uwaterloo.ca wrote:

> Quoting Ludovic Courtès <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 didn't 
> work right away. I actually figured out the problem (the lack 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 
> config.scm, but should I have also mounted them (or at least /home) before 
> system init?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy


I have a password "" and (home-directory "/home/user")
in users list for some time. This works OK. Home dirs are not created by 
default and this sets password to empty.

Adam Pribyl