Merge pull request #6882 from DeterminateSystems/allow-multi-user-as-root

Allow installing multi-user as root on macOS and Linux

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
index ed0f65177..2d007ca1b 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ for your platform:
 - multi-user on macOS
 
   > **Notes on read-only filesystem root in macOS 10.15 Catalina +**
-  > 
+  >
   > - It took some time to support this cleanly. You may see posts,
   >   examples, and tutorials using obsolete workarounds.
   > - Supporting it cleanly made macOS installs too complex to qualify
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ $ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
 ```
 
 This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that `/nix`
-is owned by the invoking user. You should run this under your usual user
-account, *not* as root. The script will invoke `sudo` to create `/nix`
+is owned by the invoking user. You can run this under your usual user
+account or root. The script will invoke `sudo` to create `/nix`
 if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t have `sudo`, you should
 manually create `/nix` first as root, e.g.:
 
@@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ $ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
 
 The multi-user installation of Nix will create build users between the
 user IDs 30001 and 30032, and a group with the group ID 30000. You
-should run this under your usual user account, *not* as root. The script
+can run this under your usual user account or root. The script
 will invoke `sudo` as needed.
 
 > **Note**
-> 
+>
 > If you need Nix to use a different group ID or user ID set, you will
 > have to download the tarball manually and [edit the install
 > script](#installing-from-a-binary-tarball).
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ and `/etc/zshrc` which you may remove.
    removed next.
 
 7. Remove the Nix Store volume:
-   
+
    ```console
    sudo diskutil apfs deleteVolume /nix
    ```
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ and `/etc/zshrc` which you may remove.
    identifier.
 
 > **Note**
-> 
+>
 > After you complete the steps here, you will still have an empty `/nix`
 > directory. This is an expected sign of a successful uninstall. The empty
 > `/nix` directory will disappear the next time you reboot.