bug#54666: closed (Installation without non-root user accounts)

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> Installation without non-root user accounts
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> Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:31:34 +0200
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> Hello!
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> Using the installer, it’s possible to create a system config without any
> non-root user accounts.  That’s a problem because then users end up
> creating their account manually with ‘useradd’, which gets things wrong,
> and things go awry.
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> To reproduce the issue, in the user page of the installer, add an
> account for user “root”.  That’s enough to fool this check:
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>      (when (null? users)
>        (run-error-page (G_ "Please create at least one user.")
>                        (G_ "No user"))
>        (run users))
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> This “root” account is then ignored:
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>   (define (users->configuration users)
>     ;; …
>     `((users (cons*
>               ,@(filter-map (lambda (user)
>                               ;; Do not emit a 'user-account' form for "root".
>                               (and (not (string=? (user-name user) "root"))
>                                    (user->sexp user)))
>                             users)
>               %base-user-accounts))))
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> … and that’s how you end up with a config without normal user accounts.
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> To address that, maybe ‘run-user-add-page’ should explicitly reject
> “root”?
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> Ludo’.
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> Hey!
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> > Nitpick: you can omit ‘begin’ here.
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> Fixed it before pushing, thanks for having a look.
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> Mathieu
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