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Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
Subject: bug#19795: closed (Re: bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and
 groups in GuixSD)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:45:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 19795 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>,
 Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>, 19795-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:43:57 +0200

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> In response to this bug report, I would just add activation code that
> removes any unknown user accounts.

Commit 9bea87a does that.

Let me know if it wipes all your user accounts or anything!  :-)

(Seriously though, I’ve run it on my machine and everything is fine.)

Ludo’.

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:13:31 -0500

Currently, removing a user account from the users list in an OS config
does not remove the user account from a system when 'guix system
reconfigure' is run.  I think that user accounts not specified in the
user accounts list should be invalidated and that /etc/passwd and
other files be fully rebuilt each time.  In other words, I want a
stateless /etc/passwd, not a stateful one.

As Mark brought up on IRC, this proposed change in behavior may very
well surprise and frustrate another subset of users, so perhaps the
existing behavior should be preserved, with a bit that can be flipped
for stateless user accounts.

Thoughts?

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