I am curious as to how Nix manages users and groups outside of NixOS. In perusing the NGinX derivation, for example, it's not clear to me that one ever creates a user `nginx'.
Is this just not usually done with Nix? It seems reasonable that this is not possible, due to Nix's stated goals of purity. An alternative way I thought of is to create a `local-shadow' derivation that creates `/etc/passwd' and so on. However, these files would never leave the Nix store! So I am stuck again. While NixOS is appealing, I can't move my systems to it right this minute -- I'm looking at managing CentOS boxen. Maybe I'll have to use Bcfg2 or Puppet for the time being to manage users and other system global configuration. -- Jason Dusek _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
