bug#23971: Nobody has a shell

[Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>]

Thanks efraim, I should have RTFM more on guix refresh, I guess...

Leo, yes I'll try reboot to see if it makes any difference, and then
remove the user if that don't do it. And report here.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:25:57PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
>> > Indeed, fixed in 2d94702ff4133606cda1e51a2c8378a8e79afb9d.
>> >
>> > The ‘shell’ field was omitted from the definition of “nobody”, which is
>> > why it ended up using Bash, which is the default shell.
>>
>> Thanks the fix looks good, but I tried with guix system reconfigure
>> after guix pull
>> That does not change /etc/passwd
>
> I've noticed that certain changes to my own user require reboot.
>
> Others, which involve bringing previously non-Guix controlled user
> parameters under control of Guix, seemed to require me to remove the
> user from my system configuration, reconfigure, and then re-add the
> user. I'm not sure what nobody's GuixSD user configuration would look
> like.
>
> Neither is a good solution, but could you try them out?



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Vincent Legoll