Re: discussion: root password switch for next guixsd release

2016-06-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 12:48:26AM +, ng0 wrote: > On 2016-06-11(08:24:47-0400), Leo Famulari wrote: > Insert/Load the guixsd image on a remote/local-remote system, provide > a password which is not empty, start an sshd (lsh/openssh) and be able > to do the installation this way... or at least

Re: discussion: root password switch for next guixsd release

2016-06-11 Thread ng0
On 2016-06-11(08:24:47-0400), Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:17:02AM +, ng0 wrote: > > Could we target a similar behavior for GuixSD for the next release, > > where people could pass at least a password to startup parameters? > > I don't understand your use case fully, but wou

Re: discussion: root password switch for next guixsd release

2016-06-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:17:02AM +, ng0 wrote: > Could we target a similar behavior for GuixSD for the next release, > where people could pass at least a password to startup parameters? I don't understand your use case fully, but would it suffice to provide the password in the operation syst

discussion: root password switch for next guixsd release

2016-06-07 Thread ng0
Hi, building my clone army of Gentoo Penguins I came to appreciate that you can start a Gentoo setup with boot parameters like: gentoo dosshd passwd=foo for an remote setup, so you can just ssh to the IP of the VM and do the setup. Could we target a similar behavior for GuixSD for the next rele