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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="sec-single-user">
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<title>Single-User Mode</title>
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<para>In single-user mode, all Nix operations that access the database
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in <filename><emphasis>prefix</emphasis>/var/nix/db</filename>
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or modify the Nix store in
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<filename><emphasis>prefix</emphasis>/store</filename> must be
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performed under the user ID that owns those directories. This is
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typically <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. (If you
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install from RPM packages, that’s in fact the default ownership.)
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However, on single-user machines, it is often convenient to
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<command>chown</command> those directories to your normal user account
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so that you don’t have to <command>su</command> to <systemitem
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class="username">root</systemitem> all the time.</para>
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</section>
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