Hello, I played around a little bit with that, and it seems like you'll end up getting two entries for the 'postgres' user in your /etc/passwd if you just ignore the warning. And the order doesn't seem to be consistent.
Here in my current patch: https://gitlab.com/martin-baulig/forks/guix/-/commit/5710b3bff17f4edaa7af397108e08f4dc842adef And my current config is here: https://gitlab.com/martin-baulig/config-and-setup/guix-packages/-/blob/work-postgres/packages/baulig/config/lothlorien/postgresql.scm#L25 I wasn't sure whether the (create-accout?) is really needed, probably not because you really need that postgres service account. Already wanted to remove that and submit a patch, but then got distracted by my new "secrets service". I'm running some complex packages on GNU Guix - Bacula, Loki / Promtail and the GitLab Runner - and am currently cleaning up things nicely, to possibly upstream some of that. Best regards, Martin ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 at 10:10 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:35:00 +0000 > Martin Baulig mar...@baulig.is wrote: > > > If I use the unmodified service and with the (operating-system (user > > ...)) entry, it works sometimes, but not reliably due to having two > > conflicting entries for the 'postgres' user. > > I see. So if I touch too much my system it could break at any time then. > > Denis.
