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Should `--explain` require root? #1368

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jfly opened this issue Jan 2, 2025 · 0 comments

jfly commented Jan 2, 2025

It looks like right now, nix-installer tries to escalate to root before printing out an explanation of what it's going to do. For example:

$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | env NIX_INSTALLER_EXPLAIN=true sh -s -- install
info: downloading installer https://install.determinate.systems/nix/tag/v0.32.2/nix-installer-aarch64-darwin
 INFO nix-installer v0.32.2
nix-installer needs to run as root, attempting to escalate now via sudo...
Password:
sudo: a password is required

Is this intentional? It's scaring a friend of mine away before they can even try out nix :)

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