From 45f6211730157c50ade4dbf770e60871f1067ad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:16:35 +0100 Subject: doc: Clarify treatment of the root account. * doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Clarify the situation of UID 0. --- doc/guix.texi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 68f3a88781..3bb29db960 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3