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Guix Home leaves user shepherd on logout, starts new instance on login

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> friendly-machines.com>
Cc: 74912 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 76998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>, 76998-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jake <jforst.mailman <at> gmail.com>, Daniel Littlewood <dan <at> danielittlewood.xyz>
Subject: bug#76998: Guix Home leaves user shepherd on logout, starts new instance on login
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:14:35 +0200

Hi Danny,

We can do both:

  1. Have ‘shepherd’ stop itself if its socket is removed (for user
     shepherd), or recreate the socket (for PID 1).

  2. Change elogind to potentially allow user shepherd to outlive user
     sessions.

From the Shepherd’s viewpoint, #1 seems to be the safe thing to do.
From the Guix Home viewpoint, #2 would be nice.

How does that sound?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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