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User accounts are shared between system generations

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From: Ian Eure <ian <at> retrospec.tv>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: User accounts are shared between system generations
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:46:45 -0700

Found this one on accident today and was surprised.  To reproduce:

- Remove your user account from your system configuration on 
accident.
- `sudo guix system reconfigure'
- Realize your mistake.  Observe that neither `su' nor `sudo' 
work, because you don’t exist.
- Reboot in a state of mild panic.
- Select any previous system generation from GRUB.

Expected result: previous generations should have the account 
which was deleted, since it was declared in the configurations 
which produced them.

Actual result: They don’t.

 -- Ian

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