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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:14:30 +0100
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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 con=
tainer
>>>> 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 o=
ptional 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 i=
t would
> actually be consistent to inherit its UID as well.  And with =E2=80=98--u=
ser=E2=80=99,
> we=E2=80=99d use the given user name and UID 1000.  (Essentially what Pie=
rre
> proposed above.)

Excellent, this sounds good.

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Ricardo