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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:38:07 +0100
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> I've just "guix pull"ed and I get the following:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> guix environment --container --ad-hoc coreutils shadow=20
> # id
> uid=3D0(ambrevar) gid=3D0(users) groups=3D0(users),65534(overflow)
> # groupadd audio
> groupadd: PAM: Critical error - immediate abort
> # useradd foo
> useradd: PAM: Critical error - immediate abort
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Any idea where to go from here?

I suppose /etc/pam.d/ also needs to be in the container.

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> I agree.  Defaulting to UID 0 is not good.  (=E2=80=9Cconda=E2=80=9D is =
an example of
>> one application that has very different behaviour when it thinks it is
>> running as root.)
>
> What about defaulting to 1000?  It's rather common, so I guess that
> would be anonymous enough and "just work".

Would it make sense to map the current user=E2=80=99s UID into the container
instead of using a fixed UID?

--=20
Ricardo