Re: Entering the sudo password before guix pull when updating the system

[Marek Paśnikowski]

Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> writes:

> Hi Oleander,
>
> Oleander via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> How can I enter the sudo password before `guix pull` runs when updating with 
>> `guix pull && sudo
>> guix system reconfigure config.scm`?
>>
>
> I don’t believe there’s a reasonable way to do what you want.  I think your 
> best option is to
> configure your sudoers file so your user is allowed to run `guix system 
> reconfigure' command without
> needing a password.  See the sudoers(5) man page and `sudoers-file' field of 
> the operating-system
> record.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  — Ian

Good to know that Ian, thank you.

My personal approach is to remove the password prompt timeout ↓ in the
sudoers-file and just have the command chain wait for the password when
done pulling.  Not time-efficient at all, but completely effortless for
me.

(define-module (suweren commons sudoers)
  #:use-module (guix gexp))

(define-public %sudoers-specification*
  (let ((content (string-append "root ALL=(ALL) ALL \n"
                                "%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL \n"
                                "Defaults passwd_timeout=0 \n")))
    (plain-file "sudoers" content)))