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[Installer] Extra unprivileged “root” account added

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: bokr <at> bokr.com
Cc: 55361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55361: [Installer] Extra unprivileged “root” account added
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 18:51:21 +0200

Hi,

bokr <at> bokr.com 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’.

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