nixos/users-groups: don't default users.users.<name>.group to nogroup

this is unsafe, as many distinct services may be running as the same
nogroup group.
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Guillaume Girol 3 years ago
parent 8a2ec31e22
commit 0f15a8f489
  1. 12
      nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix

@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ let
group = mkOption {
type = types.str;
apply = x: assert (builtins.stringLength x < 32 || abort "Group name '${x}' is longer than 31 characters which is not allowed!"); x;
default = "nogroup";
default = "";
description = "The user's primary group.";
};
@ -638,6 +638,16 @@ in {
Exactly one of users.users.${user.name}.isSystemUser and users.users.${user.name}.isNormalUser must be set.
'';
}
{
assertion = user.group != "";
message = ''
users.users.${user.name}.group is unset. This used to default to
nogroup, but this is unsafe. For example you can create a group
for this user with:
users.users.${user.name}.group = "${user.name}";
users.groups.${user.name} = {};
'';
}
]
));

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