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enhancement: Link guix system and guix home

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From: Dale Mellor <no-reply <at> rdmp.org>
To: 56669 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56669: enhancement: Link guix system and guix home
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:47:40 +0100

I would like to be able to create a rescue disk for my system in which
the admin user's home directory contains a copy of an encrypted key,
for manually unlocking encrypted disk drives.

Following a short discussion in IRC, it appears the best route to
achieve this would be to link *guix system* and *guix home* together,
so that the system configuration file can specify

(user-account
   ...
   (configuration (local-file "my-home-config.scm")))

for example (it should be possible to use either (home-configuration)
or a file-like object here).

Hopefully this is an easy thing to accomplish, but I don't know...

Thanks,
Dale

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