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Subject: Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:03:57 +0100
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>
>>> I suppose /etc/pam.d/ also needs to be in the container.
>>
>> Tried it, same error.
>>
>>>> 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 cont=
ainer
>>> instead of using a fixed UID?
>>
>> We have a "--user" option, so we could use the current user's UID when
>> --user is not specified, 1000 otherwise.
>> Or better: add a --uid CLI option.
>
> I can see confusion coming from the existence of both =E2=80=9C--user=E2=
=80=9D and
> =E2=80=9C--uid=E2=80=9D.  Maybe =E2=80=9C--user=E2=80=9D could take an op=
tional argument, with the
> default being the current user.  Without =E2=80=9C--user=E2=80=9D we=E2=
=80=99d use UID 1000.

Currently, without --user, we keep the current user=E2=80=99s name.  So it =
would
actually be consistent to inherit its UID as well.  And with =E2=80=98--use=
r=E2=80=99,
we=E2=80=99d use the given user name and UID 1000.  (Essentially what Pierre
proposed above.)

Thoughts?  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.