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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 12:25:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
swedebugia <address@hidden> skribis:
> 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.
Done!
187122b902 installer: Ask for confirmation of the user passwords.
8f2b7e3cb4 installer: Ask for confirmation of the root password.
Ludo’.