[Nix-dev] Re: /etc/{passwd, group} don't match the build user effective UID/GID

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> $ sudo usermod nixbld1 --gid nixbld --groups "nixbld"
>> usermod: `nixbld' is primary group name.
>
> The following does work:
>
> $ usermod nixbld1 --gid nixbld
> $ groupmod nixbld -A nixbld1
>
> although it's less efficient in the activation script.

Revision 18918 fixes it along these lines, thanks!

Can you run ‘nixos-rebuild’ on Hydra to see whether it fixes the
Coreutils test suite?

Ludo’.