[Nix-dev] Re: Managing users, configuration files and filesystem mounts.

[Jason Dusek]

2010/02/05 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
> Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> writes:
> > I am curious as to how Nix manages users and groups outside
> > of NixOS.
>
> Normally, all users and groups are declared in NixOS.
>
> Users (actually sysadmins) can specify a list in the
> ‘users.extraUsers’ attribute, in their ‘configuration.nix’.
> Likewise, services provided by NixOS can declare
> users/groups; for instance, the Avahi service declares that it
> wants an ‘avahi’ user and group, so that ‘avahi-daemon’ can
> run under that user.

  Where can I browse the NixOS specific packages? I poked around
  under `http://nixos.org/releases/' but have not found them.

> Does that answer your question?

  It sounds like users are managed in NixOS but when using Nix
  overlayed with Ubuntu or something else, you must manage users
  outside of Nix. Is that correct?

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Jason Dusek