On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 05:15:17 -0700 Bengt Richter wrote: > Hi again Kai, > > On +2019-10-27 09:59:39 +0100, Kai Mertens wrote: > > Dear GNU Guix developers, > > > > [...] > > > > man sudo ;-) Oops. > > specifically the -i option > > I think if you are a "sudoer" plain sudo switches you to root, > but keeps the environment you were in, with PATH etc, > but sudo -i will set the environment as if you logged in as root. > > try "sudo set" and compare with "sudo -i set" > (or env in place of set) Well, I tried "sudo --preserve-env ./guix-install.sh" on debian10, that seems to work fine and the key in the sudoer’s keyring is detected. On trisquel, I am used to use plain sudo instead. Anyway – it is of course not a bug of the guix script. Maybe a usage hint within the guix documentation in section 2.1 would be nice? Thanks for your help, best regards Kai -- Kai Mertens OpenPGP Key-ID: 0x40B15AB4B05B5BF1 on keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint = 7C83 0A80 01FF 679C 6E8E AFD3 40B1 5AB4 B05B 5BF1 What is that? Please check: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/