[Nix-dev] Nix(OS) and passwords ? builtins.writeFileToPath proposal

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Michael Raskin's message of Sun Dec 27 16:44:03 +0100 2009:
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> Marc Weber wrote:
> > This idea is based on trusting users: Either a user can uses
> > derivationSecret or it can't.
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> Each user can use derivationSecret
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> > This means a users which can't can't build live-cd's if they contain
> > passwords. Bad for automatic testing.
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> Write liveCD expression so that you can pass your own passwords _and_
> owner set from the caller.

And if another user accidently builds exact the same version store
derivations don't have to be realisezed. Owners will be added then?

I"m not very familiar with this kind of adding owners. Do you have me
some keywords I should lookup (such as "chown" ?)

Marc Weber