Hi Linus, On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:37, Linus Arver <linusar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:42:03PM -0800, Linus Arver wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:35:01AM +0100, Nicolas Pierron wrote: >> > Hi Linus, >> > >> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 22:44, Linus Arver <linusar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:00:29PM +0100, Nicolas Pierron wrote: >> > chsh does not work if you reference your user inside NixOS >> > configuration file, the reason is that each time you boot, NixOS >> > activation script will update /etc/passwd file with the list of users >> > and shells. But you can update your shell inside your >> > configuration.nix file. Have a look at one module of my >> > configurations: >> > >> > https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/configurations/trunk/misc/nicolas.b.pierron/common/user.nix >> >> Thanks for this. I adapted the >> >> users.extraUsers = [ >> { name = "nicolas"; >> uid = 1000; >> group = "users"; >> extraGroups = [ "wheel" "share" ]; >> description = "Nicolas Pierron"; >> home = "/home/nicolas"; >> shell = pkgs.zsh + "/bin/zsh"; >> } >> ]; >> >> users.extraGroups = [ >> { name = "share"; >> gid = 1001; >> } >> ]; >> >> environment.systemPackages = [ >> pkgs.zsh >> ]; > > I just wanted to point out to future zsh users for NixOS that using the > above setting will work if you are inside an X process, because the bash > shell that runs the X stuff sources /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile for all > the right global system PATHs (see > /etc/nixos/nixos/modules/programs/bash/bash.nix). But if you log in from > a virtual console tty (e.g., CTRL+ALT+F1), or if you SSH in, your zsh > won't source the abovementioned files, resulting in an unusable shell.
What I did on my server was to add the following lines in /etc/zshenv file. emulate bash alias shopt=false . /etc/profile unalias shopt emulate zsh -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev