I've been asked, on numerous occasions, by my students and others, how
to 'sudo' on NixOS.
Of course new users could read up in the manual on how to do that, or we
could make it more accessible for them by simply making it visible in
the default `configuration.nix` file.
Additionally, as raised in [1], replacing `guest` with something more
recognizable could be potentially beneficial to new users. I've
opted for `jane` for now.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54519#issuecomment-457012223
The motivation for this is that some applications are unaware
of this feature and can set their volume to 100% on startup
harming people ears and possiblly blowing someone's audio
setup.
I noticed this in #54594 and by extension epiphany[0].
Please also note that many other distros have this default for
the reason outlined above.
Closes#5632#54594
[0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675217
Systemd provides some functionality to escape strings that are supposed
to be part of a unit name[1]. This seems to be used for interface names
in `sys-subsystem-net-devices-{interface}.device` and breaks
wpa_supplicant if the wireless interface name has a dash which is
encoded to \x2d.
Such an interface name is rather rare, but used i.e. when configuring
multiple wireless interfaces with `networking.wlanInterfaces`[2] to have on
interface for `wpa_supplicant` and another one for `hostapd`.
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-escape.html
[2] https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#networking.wlaninterfaces
This reverts commit c6ff4d6192.
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while evaluating anonymous function at /var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/mr-est/eval-1-lassulus.ewr1.nix.ci/pkgs/top-level/release-lib.nix:121:6, called from /var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/mr-est/eval-1-lassulus.ewr1.nix.ci/lib/attrsets.nix:292:43:
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while evaluating the attribute 'drvPath' at /var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/mr-est/eval-1-lassulus.ewr1.nix.ci/lib/customisation.nix:174:13:
while evaluating the attribute 'drvPath' at /var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/mr-est/eval-1-lassulus.ewr1.nix.ci/lib/customisation.nix:141:13:
while evaluating the attribute 'buildInputs' of the derivation 'tonaparser-0.1.0.0' at /var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/mr-est/eval-1-lassulus.ewr1.nix.ci/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:185:11:
while evaluating the attribute 'buildInputs' of the derivation 'tonatona-0.1.0.0' at /var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/mr-est/eval-1-lassulus.ewr1.nix.ci/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:185:11:
infinite recursion encountered, at undefined position
