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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-20 15:45:14 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-20 15:46:36 +0100
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doc: Run `useradd -g guix-builder -G guix-builder'.
* doc/guix.texi (Setting Up the Daemon): Add `-G guix-builder' when invoking `useradd'. Suggested by Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconchillo@gmail.com>.
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@@ -221,11 +221,14 @@ regarded as pure functions (@pxref{Introduction}).
On a GNU/Linux system, a build user pool may be created like this (using
Bash syntax and the @code{shadow} commands):
+@c See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-01/msg00239.html
+@c for why `-G' is needed.
@example
# groupadd guix-builder
# for i in `seq 1 10`;
do
- useradd -g guix-builder -d /var/empty -s `which nologin` \
+ useradd -g guix-builder -G guix-builder \
+ -d /var/empty -s `which nologin` \
-c "Guix build user $i" guix-builder$i;
done
@end example