bug#35399: Guix System installer does not set up passwords

[swedebugia]

On 2019-04-25 00:51, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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?

Yes, that sounds like a good idea.

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