From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: 19795@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:13:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZwBVWfSOe_aMbBChFQ1YkF0xKPdhNehqnXfWEYEZFFng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
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.
Thoughts?
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-06 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 17:13 Thompson, David [this message]
2015-02-06 17:24 ` bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD Alex Sassmannshausen
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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