Dave Love <f...@gnu.org> skribis: > If you unpack guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz according to the > manual instructions in "Binary installation", you clobber the ownership > of /, /root, and /var. > > The tarball needs to unpack with root ownership. While you can use > --no-same-owner, the current behaviour is pretty unfriendly. (I noticed > because ssh as root then failed with complaints about an insecure .ssh > directory.)
Indeed, thanks for your report. We actually noticed it and fixed it soon after 0.8.2. The fix will be in 0.8.3, to be released tomorrow. Thank you, Ludo’.
