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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-12-18 23:16:35 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-12-18 23:17:30 +0100
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doc: Clarify treatment of the root account.
* doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Clarify the situation of UID 0.
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@@ -8700,6 +8700,9 @@ also specified. @xref{Mapped Devices} and @ref{File Systems}.
@itemx @code{groups} (default: @var{%base-groups})
List of user accounts and groups. @xref{User Accounts}.
+If the @code{users} list lacks a user account with UID@tie{}0, a
+``root'' account with UID@tie{}0 is automatically added.
+
@item @code{skeletons} (default: @code{(default-skeletons)})
A list target file name/file-like object tuples (@pxref{G-Expressions,
file-like objects}). These are the skeleton files that will be added to