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bug#35399: Guix System installer does not set up passwords
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#35399: Guix System installer does not set up passwords |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:51:25 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> skribis:
>> Another option would be to have an activation snippet that runs when
>> booting the newly installed system: if would check for a flag or
>> something (it could check for uninitialized passwords), and if it
>> determines it’s a first boot, open a dialog box asking for passwords.
>> We’d need to add a “post-install” service in the OS config that would do
>> just that.
>>
>> That would be the most robust approach, but it’s also a bit more work I
>> guess. It’s also not so nice that users will see this extra service in
>> their config.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> To which Florian replied:
>
>> Why can’t the installer just chroot into the new system and call
>> passwd?
>
> That makes a lot of sense, I feel silly for not thinking about it. :-)
>
> (In fact, we don’t even have to chroot since we can directly use (gnu
> build accounts) to write the shadow file in the right place.)
This is implemented by these commits:
91a7c4998f installer: Ask for the root account password.
898677ed17 installer: Ask for user password and initialize /etc/shadow.
I ran a full install and confirmed that it works as expected. You’re of
course welcome to try it out!
I realized later that I forgot to add a password confirmation box. I
guess we should add one, right?
Thanks,
Ludo’.