Re: Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user (Was: [PATCH] syscalls: setns: Skip binding if there is no such C function.)

[韋嘉誠]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> [Reposting with correct sender. Sorry, David.]
>
> Great! I ran into this when trying to compile and run guix on a machine at
> work, where I'm not root.
>
> I was planning to run guix as a stow of steroids. But I'm still wondering
> whether what I'm attempting is even intended to be possible? Of course, I
> would lose the benefits of user separation, chroot, hydra (because I can't
> write to /gnu) etc, but is guix even made to be able to downgrade to this
> situation?

Answering myself: It is there in the Fine Manual. So it's intended to
work. I will try this and see how far I come.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Build-Environment-Setup

"If you are installing Guix as an unprivileged user, it is still
possible to run guix-daemon provided you pass --disable-chroot."

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