Subject: Re: bug#55361: [Installer] Extra unprivileged “root” account added

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 18:51:21 +0200

Hi,

[email-masked] skribis:

> Assuming my date-diff hack worked:
>
> ~/wb/guix]$ date-diff '2022-04-04 16:38:09' '2022-05-20 20:41:02'
> 46days 4hrs 2min 53sec
>
> Is this like coming home from 46day vacation and noticing
> that, oops, someone left the kitchen door open,
> and hoping no ++ungoodniks noticed? Or meh?

Heh.  It was a minor annoyance: the generated OS config would have an
unnecessary “root” user account (unnecessary because it’s included by
default), which ‘guix system init’ would warn about and ignore, and the
end result is unchanged.

IWBN to augment the installation tests with a check for that, but that’s
tricky.  But like Tobias wrote, contributions are welcome.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.