Hello Guix, I've added a guix-offload user to my system, because I've found that ‘~/.guile’ with following content break ‘guix offload’. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (use-modules (ice-9 readline)) ;; Enable completion at the REPL. (activate-readline) ;; Colorize (use-modules (ice-9 colorized)) (activate-colorized) (define-macro (try function) `(catch 'quit (lambda () ,function) (const #f))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I choose a ‘/var/run/guix-offload’ for guix-offload's home directory: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (operating-system (groups (cons* … (user-group (name "guix-offload")) %base-groups)) (users (cons* … (user-account (name "guix-offload") (uid 1982) (group "guix-offload") (home-directory "/var/run/guix-offload")) %base-user-accounts)) … ) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- but I cannot login to ‘guix-offload’ user with ‘sudo -u guix-offload -i’: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- sudo: unable to change directory to /home/guix-offload: No such file or directory sudo: unable to execute /gnu/store/q4b3s9y4i0da36drp7zfq9yqcf43s47v-bash-4.4.19/bin/bash: No such file or directory --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and a ‘getent’ program confirms home directory is wrong: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- natsu@magnolia ~$ getent passwd guix-offload guix-offload:x:1982:30002::/home/guix-offload:/gnu/store/q4b3s9y4i0da36drp7zfq9yqcf43s47v-bash-4.4.19/bin/bash --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Choosing ‘(home-directory "/home/guix-offload")’ is a workaround. Oleg.