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Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?
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Giovanni Biscuolo |
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Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what? |
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Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:15:34 +0100 |
Hi all,
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello Guix,
>>>
>>> I’m not sure if this is a bug, but on Guix System, ‘sudo’ leaves PATH
>>> unchanged:
this also happens on foreign distros :-)
[...]
>> Yes, this is expected and desired behaviour. Sysadmins generally use
>> “su -” or “sudo -i” to get a “proper” root login shell because of this.
>
> OK.
>
>>> However, it trips up many people.
yes, and it was a subject of many help requests both here and help-guix
in recent months (since I'm subscribed)
[...]
> … which doesn’t do what one might think before “sudo guix pull” updates
> root’s ‘guix’ whereas “sudo guix system” uses the user’s ‘guix’.
>
> Either we should rephrase it or perhaps explicitly write:
>
> From then on, you can update GuixSD whenever you want by running:
>
> @example
> guix pull
> sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
> @end example
IMHO it should be explicitly stated that in general it's not
advised/needed to install guix for the root user and that "guix system"
must be run as a normal user via sudo (and the user must be allowed to
do so by root via sudoers); then the example above
[...]
Thanks!
Giovanni
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Giovanni Biscuolo
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- Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?, Caleb Ristvedt, 2019/01/18
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- Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?, Caleb Ristvedt, 2019/01/18
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- Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?, swedebugia, 2019/01/19
- Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/01/19
- Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/01/19
- Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?, Danny Milosavljevic, 2019/01/19
- Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?, Giovanni Biscuolo, 2019/01/18