On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Vincent Legoll <vincent.leg...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> I came with the attached patch, totally untested, probably wrong for some >> cases...
My patch was heuristic, so bound to be wrong sometimes... > We currently lack a way to specify whether the home directory should be > created, which would be useful for ‘nobody’. This is the alternative solution, specifying it, always right. > So what about a patch along these lines instead? It adds a > ‘create-home-directory?’ field to <user-account> and sets it to #f for > ‘nobody’. LGTM, but do I understand correctly: the default value being false, we will have to always specify the added param as true in system definitions ? Why not the other way around, that would not need any modifications of current configs. -- Vincent Legoll
