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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 81f46cc18d..c600d577ac 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -12830,8 +12830,19 @@ User accounts and groups are entirely managed through the "audio" ;sound card "video" ;video devices such as webcams "cdrom")) ;the good ol' CD-ROM - (comment "Bob's sister") - (home-directory "/home/alice")) + (comment "Bob's sister")) +@end lisp + +Here's a user account that uses a different shell and a custom home +directory (the default would be @file{"/home/bob"}): + +@lisp +(user-account + (name "bob") + (group "users") + (comment "Alice's bro") + (shell (file-append zsh "/bin/zsh")) + (home-directory "/home/robert")) @end lisp When booting or upon completion of @command{guix system reconfigure}, @@ -12876,7 +12887,19 @@ if it does not exist yet. @item @code{shell} (default: Bash) This is a G-expression denoting the file name of a program to be used as -the shell (@pxref{G-Expressions}). +the shell (@pxref{G-Expressions}). For example, you would refer to the +Bash executable like this: + +@lisp +(file-append bash "/bin/bash") +@end lisp + +@noindent +... and to the Zsh executable like that: + +@lisp +(file-append zsh "/bin/zsh") +@end lisp @item @code{system?} (default: @code{#f}) This Boolean value indicates whether the account is a ``system'' |