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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#33422: /etc/passwd on GuixSD can end up containing default home
	directories
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:19:24 +0100
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:05:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> On IRC, fps reported this issue: their user account was declared like
>> this:
>>=20
>> 26   (users (cons (user-account=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
>> 27                 (name "fps")=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
>> 28                 (comment "fps")=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
>> 29                 (group "users")=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
>> 30                 (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"=20=20
>> 31                                         "audio" "video"))=20
>> 32                 (home-directory "/home/bob"))    ;<--- notice =E2=80=
=9Cbob=E2=80=9D!
>>=20
>> =E2=80=A6 yet /etc/passwd would refer to /home/fps for user =E2=80=9Cfps=
=E2=80=9D (this is on a
>> fresh GuixSD 0.15.0 install.)
>>=20
>> This in turn would prevent logging in as =E2=80=9Cfps=E2=80=9D because /=
home/fps didn=E2=80=99t
>> exist (meaning the =E2=80=98user-homes=E2=80=99 Shepherd service created=
 /home/bob, not
>> /home/fps.)
>
> It slightly obscures a part of config.scm that is otherwise
> straightforward, but I do this:
>
> (home-directory (string-append "/home/" name))
>
> ... which would have avoided the issue. Maybe the value of
> home-directory should be implicit when unspecified.
>
> But, that is missing the point, which I think is that home directories
> are not being handled in a consistent and unified way.

Exactly, that home directory was a typo, but the point of this bug is
that non-default home directories were not correctly handled.

Ludo=E2=80=99.