Adam Pribyl <pri...@lowlevel.cz> skribis: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, ajpat...@uwaterloo.ca wrote: > >> Quoting Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>: >> >>> >>> As it turns out, ?root? is initialized with an empty password, and for >>> other users, you shouldn?t use the ?password? field of up >>> ?user-account?. >>> >>> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/User-Accounts.html> >>> tries to make that clear, but perhaps there?s misleading info somewhere? >> >> >> Ah, ok. The only reason I thought it might be wrong was because it >> didn't work right away. I actually figured out the problem (the lack >> of a home directory) as I was writing the email. >> >>> Also, the user?s home directory should definitely be created >>> automatically. >> >> My partition layout has separate /, /home, /boot. I specified these >> in config.scm, but should I have also mounted them (or at least >> /home) before system init? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andy > > > I have a password "" and (home-directory "/home/user") > in users list for some time. This works OK.
Right, the empty string is OK. > Home dirs are not created by default and this sets password to empty. Home directories *are* created by default, but they are created at “activation time”, which means on the first boot or upon ‘guix system reconfigure’. Ludo’.
