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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-03-27 11:48:01 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-03-27 14:51:44 +0200
commit82b71ac366ef154400653d264b46b7aa3520f393 (patch)
tree5aed06ac05e3a7e8d466662d2d4db974694e8961 /gnu/build
parent7ddd418a1d678b5ecaac185bde8576c4ed68adf7 (diff)
downloadguix-82b71ac366ef154400653d264b46b7aa3520f393.tar.gz
activation: Pass '-d HOME' to 'usermod'.
Fixes a bug whereby changes to user home directories in the OS config
would never be effective.

Reported by Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>.

* gnu/build/activation.scm (modify-user): Pass '-d HOME'.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/build')
-rw-r--r--gnu/build/activation.scm5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/activation.scm b/gnu/build/activation.scm
index 6c0d603ddf..68ecd6bc71 100644
--- a/gnu/build/activation.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/activation.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ properties.  Return #t on success."
                       `("-G" ,(string-join supplementary-groups ","))
                       '())
                 ,@(if comment `("-c" ,comment) '())
-                ;; Don't use '--move-home', so ignore HOME.
+                ;; Don't use '--move-home'.
+                ,@(if home `("-d" ,home) '())
                 ,@(if shell `("-s" ,shell) '())
                 ,name)))
     (zero? (apply system* "usermod" args))))