From 82b71ac366ef154400653d264b46b7aa3520f393 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:48:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 . * gnu/build/activation.scm (modify-user): Pass '-d HOME'. --- gnu/build/activation.scm | 5 +++-- 1 file 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 +;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Ludovic Courtès ;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ (define* (modify-user name group `("-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))))