Leo Famulari <[email protected]> skribis: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:05:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> On IRC, fps reported this issue: their user account was declared like >> this: >> >> 26 (users (cons (user-account >> 27 (name "fps") >> 28 (comment "fps") >> 29 (group "users") >> 30 (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev" >> 31 "audio" "video")) >> 32 (home-directory "/home/bob")) ;<--- notice “bob”! >> >> … yet /etc/passwd would refer to /home/fps for user “fps” (this is on a >> fresh GuixSD 0.15.0 install.) >> >> This in turn would prevent logging in as “fps” because /home/fps didn’t >> exist (meaning the ‘user-homes’ Shepherd service created /home/bob, not >> /home/fps.) > > It slightly obscures a part of config.scm that is otherwise > straightforward, but I do this: > > (home-directory (string-append "/home/" name)) > > ... which would have avoided the issue. Maybe the value of > home-directory should be implicit when unspecified. > > But, that is missing the point, which I think is that home directories > are not being handled in a consistent and unified way.
Exactly, that home directory was a typo, but the point of this bug is that non-default home directories were not correctly handled. Ludo’.
