Guix resets passwords on reconfigure

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  • Gábor Boskovits
  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Marius Bakke
  • Marlon
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Marlon wrote 6 years ago
(name . Bug Guix)(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
E1hUaXG-0000w3-Rs@eggs.gnu.org
My user and root passwords have been reset about 3 times in 4 days upon running guix system reconfigure.

I can't seem to recognize any pattern, it appears to occur randomly, and it requires setting passwords manually.

The password is left blank, and could be a security issue, as anybody would be able to access the root account easily.
Marius Bakke wrote 6 years ago
87h89hd63s.fsf@devup.no
Marlon <mbmattos1113@firemail.cc> writes:

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> My user and root passwords have been reset about 3 times in 4 days upon running guix system reconfigure.
>
> I can't seem to recognize any pattern, it appears to occur randomly, and it requires setting passwords manually.
>
> The password is left blank, and could be a security issue, as anybody would be able to access the root account easily.

This sounds really odd. Can you share your system configuration?

Do you manage users outside of the Guix configuration system by any
chance? Or can you reproduce it by simply invoking `guix system
reconfigure` enough times?
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Gábor Boskovits wrote 6 years ago
(name . Marius Bakke)(address . mbakke@fastmail.com)
CAE4v=pgqx4YmiBQyVH=v=kxVjaqqU2uxxFfMMHmXQwQ4DZ=F1Q@mail.gmail.com
Hello,



Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> ezt írta (idÅ‘pont: 2019. máj. 26., Vas
9:39):

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> Marlon <mbmattos1113@firemail.cc> writes:
>
> > My user and root passwords have been reset about 3 times in 4 days upon
> running guix system reconfigure.
> >
> > I can't seem to recognize any pattern, it appears to occur randomly, and
> it requires setting passwords manually.
> >
> > The password is left blank, and could be a security issue, as anybody
> would be able to access the root account easily.
>
I have also noticed this once, but could not reproduce it since then. This
happened to me not too much after the 1.0.1 release, on a vm with 512 mb
ram. I later cleared up that machine, as it was too small. So in my case it
was either a sporadic thing, a specific commit from guix pull fixed later,
or a not obvious out of memory. Wdyt?

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> This sounds really odd. Can you share your system configuration?
>
> Do you manage users outside of the Guix configuration system by any
> chance? Or can you reproduce it by simply invoking `guix system
> reconfigure` enough times?
>
Best regards,
g_bor

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Ludovic Courtès wrote 6 years ago
(name . Gábor Boskovits)(address . boskovits@gmail.com)
87y32j67mk.fsf@gnu.org
Hi,

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:

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> I have also noticed this once, but could not reproduce it since then.

We’d need more info. This would obviously be a serious problem, and one
I’ve never experienced, FWIW.

Ludo’.
Ludovic Courtès wrote 6 years ago
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Ludovic Courtès wrote 6 years ago
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