[Nix-dev] Permission error when installing mpd

Nikita Karetnikov nikita at karetnikov.org
Thu Feb 19 10:40:03 CET 2015


> Looking at the source (nixos/modules/services/audio/mpd.nix), it looks
> like the mpd service is designed to run as the mpd user. If you are
> willing to go with that design, I guess you should not set
> services.mpd.dataDir, and make sure the mpd user has read access to
> your music directory. (It tries to create /home/nikita because that's
> where its dataDir is supposed to go.)

I'm willing to go with anything.  I've tried setting just 

  mpd.enable = true;

but it has a similar permission-related problem.

Could anyone share the configuration that's known to work, so I could
forget about it?
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