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/etc/passwd on GuixSD can end up containing default home directories |
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Sun, 18 Nov 2018 23:05:26 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello Guix,
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.)
Ludo’.
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Re: bug#33422: /etc/passwd on GuixSD can end up containing default home directories |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 23:43:14 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> 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.)
Fixed in b297934437932de730432629b361fcb422accbb7.
Ludo'.
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