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Maxime Devos |
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Re: Code sharing between system and home services (was Re: On the naming of System and Home services modules.) |
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Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:52:51 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès schreef op di 28-09-2021 om 14:21 [+0200]:
> Hi,
>
> Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> skribis:
>
> > Apologies if I'm speaking for something I know very little
> > about...Wouldn't it be nice if guix home services would accept a user
> > and a group field? For the syncthing service, perhaps the user wants to
> > limit Syncthing's runtime permissions. So instead of running as the
> > user, the user would run synthing as a different user with less permissions?
>
> That’s not possible unless the calling user is root, since you’d need
> the ability to switch users somehow.
On Debian, a user has a list of ‘subordinate user IDs’ which can be switched
to without root:
<https://manpages.debian.org/buster/uidmap/newuidmap.1.en.html>.
Maybe "guix home" could use that mechanism, and this mechanism could be
implemented
on Guix System as well?
Greetings,
Maxime
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