I agree: we should treat usernames as "unqiue" from NixOS point of view, although in Linux you can have two same usernames with different uids.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:08 PM, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 February 2014 00:26, Pascal Wittmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/10/2014 09:00 AM, Rickard Nilsson wrote: > >> This sounds strange. If you don't have uid=78 in your passwd file, then > >> the new implementation has touched it, but left the older (499) lightdm > >> user intact. Then the lightdm service really shoule be running as 499, > >> and I can't find anything in NixOS that picks the lightdm uid directly > >> and does a chown or something like that. > >> > >> But after your chown-command, /var/lib/lightdm is now owned by 499, > right? > > > > I guess it happens here: > > > > test "$(stat -c %u "${h}")" = ${uid} || chown ${uid} "${h}" || true > > > > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix#L437 > > > > At least I had the same problem with my user. The ids in > > configuration.nix and in /etc/passwd differed and my home directory was > > owned by "the uid". I solved it by using in configuration.nix the id > > from /etc/passwd. But first I changed uid to u.name in the above line, > > which also worked. > > > > Regards Pascal > > I confirm this. Changing it to use names instead of uids fixes the > problem for me. The following commit shows the complete change I > made, but don't merge it, because that branch is my personal head with > a bunch of junk on it. The commit also uses group name instead of > gid, although this was not an issue for me. > > > https://github.com/falsifian/nixpkgs/commit/0a8089861c270011d1ad2da7d5eedf5470514428 > > James > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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