Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-08 Thread Taylan Kammer
Clément Lassieur writes: > Hi Taylan, > > You don't need to use the root account at all. > > Taylan Kammer writes: > >> Most desktop users have single unix account and are also in control of >> root. These users might not want to differentiate between the current >> guix version of root and

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Clément Lassieur skribis: > You can use you current user's guix installation for all commands that > need root's permissions with 'sudo -E', so you can consider that your > current user's guix account is the system-wide guix account. > > For example, 'sudo -E guix system reconfigure

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-03 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Clément, > >> You don't need to use the root account at all. > > One wrinkle is that the binary installation method installs Guix for the > root user and takes the guix-daemon from there. Taylan was talking about 'reconfiguring' and thus, I think, about

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Clément, > You don't need to use the root account at all. One wrinkle is that the binary installation method installs Guix for the root user and takes the guix-daemon from there. -- Ricardo

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-03 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi Taylan, You don't need to use the root account at all. Taylan Kammer writes: > Most desktop users have single unix account and are also in control of > root. These users might not want to differentiate between the current > guix version of root and their normal user. They might also not