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Guix System installer does not set up passwords

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35399: Guix System installer does not set up passwords
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:44:42 +0200

On 2019-04-25 00:51, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> 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.

-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia

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