From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: 19795@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 18:24:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mqzar3y.fsf@yamato.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZwBVWfSOe_aMbBChFQ1YkF0xKPdhNehqnXfWEYEZFFng@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
My 2c:
In short +1!
Thompson, David writes:
> Currently, removing a user account from the users list in an OS config
> does not remove the user account from a system when 'guix system
> reconfigure' is run. I think that user accounts not specified in the
> user accounts list should be invalidated and that /etc/passwd and
> other files be fully rebuilt each time. In other words, I want a
> stateless /etc/passwd, not a stateful one.
I would love this functionality: it feels intuitive for a functional
package manager.
> As Mark brought up on IRC, this proposed change in behavior may very
> well surprise and frustrate another subset of users, so perhaps the
> existing behavior should be preserved, with a bit that can be flipped
> for stateless user accounts.
I agree that perhaps statefulness should be the default for now, as that
seems the "common way to do things".
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-06 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 17:13 bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD Thompson, David
2015-02-06 17:24 ` Alex Sassmannshausen [this message]
2015-02-07 9:10 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-08 3:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-08 14:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-08 19:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
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