bug#23220: Users' home is not created when initializing with a LUKS /home

bug#23220: Users' home is not created when initializing with a LUKS /home

[Leo Famulari]

When initializing a new GuixSD system with /home on an encrypted
partition (as described in the manual), unprivileged users' home
directories are not created.

I initialized the system with the encrypted partition locked and
unmounted, but <kyamashita> from #guix had the same problem even though
they had unlocked and mounted the partition.

Of course, root can create the directories once the new system has
booted, but none of the configuration files are there, which means the
environment is not what is expected (my PATH was '/bin:/usr/bin').

I worked around the problem by removing my user from the operating
system configuration, reconfiguring, putting my user back in the
configuration, and reconfiguring again.

bug#23220: Users' home is not created when initializing with a LUKS /home

[Ludovic Courtès]

merge 23220 21108
thanks

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> When initializing a new GuixSD system with /home on an encrypted
> partition (as described in the manual), unprivileged users' home
> directories are not created.
>
> I initialized the system with the encrypted partition locked and
> unmounted, but <kyamashita> from #guix had the same problem even though
> they had unlocked and mounted the partition.

Right, see <http://bugs.gnu.org/21108>.

> Of course, root can create the directories once the new system has
> booted, but none of the configuration files are there, which means the
> environment is not what is expected (my PATH was '/bin:/usr/bin').

In which case did you get this value of PATH?

> I worked around the problem by removing my user from the operating
> system configuration, reconfiguring, putting my user back in the
> configuration, and reconfiguring again.

Definitely not great.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

bug#23220: Users' home is not created when initializing with a LUKS /home

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:32:07AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> merge 23220 21108
> thanks
> 
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > When initializing a new GuixSD system with /home on an encrypted
> > partition (as described in the manual), unprivileged users' home
> > directories are not created.
> >
> > I initialized the system with the encrypted partition locked and
> > unmounted, but <kyamashita> from #guix had the same problem even though
> > they had unlocked and mounted the partition.
> 
> Right, see <http://bugs.gnu.org/21108>.
> 
> > Of course, root can create the directories once the new system has
> > booted, but none of the configuration files are there, which means the
> > environment is not what is expected (my PATH was '/bin:/usr/bin').
> 
> In which case did you get this value of PATH?

I now realize that I had used, as root, `su leo`. When using `su -l leo`
I get the correct PATH. I'm not sure if getting the login shell would
have helped or not in that situation, but I think this part of my
complaint is invalid for now.

> > I worked around the problem by removing my user from the operating
> > system configuration, reconfiguring, putting my user back in the
> > configuration, and reconfiguring again.
> 
> Definitely not great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.