Hi, Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:42 PM Blake Shaw <bl...@sweatshoppe.org> wrote: >> >> I changed my user name in my config without adding a new user > > I did that once in a new installation. In the second generation of my > configuration I changed the example user 'bob' to my own username. It > did not work well. > > Due to precautions I was able to go back in as the root user and > adjust the permissions. The only unexpected part was that the symbolic > links for per-user profiles encode the relationship between user name > and uid. Yes, this part is inherently stateful: Guix will not meddle with your home directories and such. Perhaps it should forcefully “chown -R” home directories at boot time, so they have the right UID? This has been discussed a few times, especially in the context of system accounts; systemd-homed appears to be doing exactly that. Thoughts? Ludo’.
