bug#29706: GuixSD: Please add the ability to change shells for root

[BJH2017]

(thought I had CC'ed the group with my last comment but unfortunately gmail doesn't do this by default, sorry)

Ya I do have %base-user-accounts in my config file here is what I had for user accounts in full:

  (users (cons 

              (user-account

                (name "root")

                (uid 0)

                (group "root")

                (supplementary-groups '("home-directory"))

                (home-directory "/root")

                (shell (file-append zsh "/bin/zsh")))

               (user-account

                (name "fusion809")

                (comment "Brenton Horne")

                (group "users")

                (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"

                                        "audio" "video"))

                (home-directory "/home/fusion809")

(shell "/run/current-system/profile/bin/zsh"))

               %base-user-accounts))

guessing the problem here is that I have two user-account fields?

On 20 December 2017 at 00:53, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:

Please always keep the list Cc’d.

BJH2017 <address@hidden> skribis:

> No it doesn't, I have this at the moment:
>
>                 (name "root")
>                 (uid 0)
>                 (group "root")
>                 (home-directory "/root")
>                 (shell (file-append zsh "/bin/zsh")))
>
> and I get the error:
>
> guix system: error: failed to load '/etc/config.scm':
> /etc/config.scm:35:9: /etc/config.scm:35:9: Wrong number of arguments to
> #<procedure cons (_ _)>

‘cons’ adds an element to a list, so it takes two arguments:

  (cons account list)

as in:

  (cons (user-account …) %base-user-accounts)

HTH!

Ludo’.