Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> >> If --build-users-group is not given explicitly, check for the group >> >> nixbld and use it if it exists. >> I’m not sure if we want to automatically use a given group name. What >> if that name was used for something else on this machine? Granted, it’s >> unlikely, but it’s not completely impossible either. > > In that case, the user would have to give the builder group explicitly > anyway.
Yes, but if they don’t, it’ll end up using real users, which could be a bad idea. Note that currently, when --build-users-group is omitted and the daemon runs as root, a warning is emitted. Ludo’.
