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

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Allow installing multi-user as root on macOS and Linux
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@ -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.