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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/installation/single-user.md b/doc/manual/src/installation/single-user.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f9a3b26ed --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/src/installation/single-user.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# Single-User Mode + +In single-user mode, all Nix operations that access the database in +`prefix/var/nix/db` or modify the Nix store in `prefix/store` must be +performed under the user ID that owns those directories. This is +typically root. (If you install from RPM packages, that’s in fact the +default ownership.) However, on single-user machines, it is often +convenient to `chown` those directories to your normal user account so +that you don’t have to `su` to root all the time. |