doc: Better explain the 'password' field of <user-account>.
* doc/guix.texi (User Accounts): Provide an example use of 'crypt', and mention the security implications.
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@ -10695,6 +10695,7 @@ account. System accounts are sometimes treated specially; for instance,
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graphical login managers do not list them.
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@anchor{user-account-password}
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@cindex password, for user accounts
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@item @code{password} (default: @code{#f})
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You would normally leave this field to @code{#f}, initialize user
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passwords as @code{root} with the @command{passwd} command, and then let
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@ -10702,11 +10703,29 @@ users change it with @command{passwd}. Passwords set with
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@command{passwd} are of course preserved across reboot and
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reconfiguration.
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If you @emph{do} want to have a preset password for an account, then
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this field must contain the encrypted password, as a string.
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@xref{crypt,,, libc, The GNU C Library Reference Manual}, for more information
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on password encryption, and @ref{Encryption,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference
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Manual}, for information on Guile's @code{crypt} procedure.
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If you @emph{do} want to set an initial password for an account, then
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this field must contain the encrypted password, as a string. You can use the
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@code{crypt} procedure for this purpose:
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@example
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(user-account
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(name "charlie")
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(home-directory "/home/charlie")
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(group "users")
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;; Specify a SHA-512-hashed initial password.
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(password (crypt "InitialPassword!" "$6$abc")))
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@end example
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@quotation Note
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The hash of this initial password will be available in a file in
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@file{/gnu/store}, readable by all the users, so this method must be used with
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care.
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@end quotation
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@xref{Passphrase Storage,,, libc, The GNU C Library Reference Manual}, for
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more information on password encryption, and @ref{Encryption,,, guile, GNU
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Guile Reference Manual}, for information on Guile's @code{crypt} procedure.
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@end table
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@end deftp
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