Re: How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 02:37:51PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > I normally check it on the website. I've been toying with writing an > nginx service to serve the html version locally. That would be really cool. I also prefer using a web browser to read the manual. I wonder if there are any

Re: How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-19 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 06:47:36PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Matthew Brooks 写道: > > Thanks! I didn't realize there were two versions of the manual, and had > > been checking the stable one. > > This state is extremely confusing and should be improved. How did you > search/browse to

Re: How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-18 Thread Pascal Lorenz
What do you think about merging both entries of the manual in the main menu of the page and let it display a page in this vein: NU Guix Reference Manual This document is available in the following languages: | language | current ("developer") | Version (1.3.) ("stable") |

Re: How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Matthew Brooks 写道: Thanks! I didn't realize there were two versions of the manual, and had been checking the stable one. This state is extremely confusing and should be improved. How did you search/browse to the ‘stable’ manual? More generally: why did you end up loading a browser to look

Re: How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-17 Thread Matthew Brooks
Thanks! I didn't realize there were two versions of the manual, and had been checking the stable one. The /devel one did have the new method, and it worked fine. On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:16:27 -0400 Julien Lepiller wrote: > Instead of the cold reply, here's an explanation. The /manual

Re: How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-03 Thread Julien Lepiller
Instead of the cold reply, here's an explanation. The /manual corresponds to the stable manual (1.3), and /manual/devel to the current manual. You will find the links on the website if you hover the help menu. You can also use "info guix" locally to get the mamual matching the current guix you

Re: How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Matthew, Matthew Brooks 写道: The actual manual, however, still lists the old way as the way to do it. No: . Which one are you consulting? Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

How to use "setuid-program"?

2021-09-03 Thread Matthew Brooks
The old way of doing setuid programs: (setuid-programs (cons #~(string-append #$slock "/bin/slock") %setuid-programs ) ) now gives a deprecation warning as follows: >warning: representing setuid programs with file-like objects is deprecated; >use 'setuid-program' instead The