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Subject: bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 15:32:52 +0100
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> If we do this, I think we should take steps to prevent users+groups from
> being added, removed, group memberships changed, setting of passwords,
> etc, outside of 'guix system reconfigure'.  I think that users will be
> very unhappy with us if commands like 'passwd' and 'useradd' work as
> expected, but are undone the next time they update their system.

Just to be clear about the current situation: everything is stateless,
with the exception of passwords (=E2=80=98reconfigure=E2=80=99 does not alt=
er them) and
user accounts that are not removed (the crux of this report.)

Apart from passwords, any modification is undoed on the next
=E2=80=98reconfigure=E2=80=99 or on the next reboot.  See notably e2b464b7,=
 which took a
step to ensure that user account settings in the OS declaration are
fully honored.

In response to this bug report, I would just add activation code that
removes any unknown user accounts.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.