Re: [PATCH nixpkgs] spectrumPackages.makeRootfs: fix messagebus group

Alyssa Ross
2021-04-22T08:03:20Z

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>> /etc/passwd set the messagebus user's primary group to 1, but there
>> was no group with that id in /etc/group. The messagebus group had id 4.
>> The 4 comes from NixOS. I think it's probably a good idea to use the
>> same user and group ids where possible -- there's no particular reason
>> to diverge -- so let's fix it in /etc/passwd instead of changing the
>> id in /etc/group to 1.
>>
>> And while we're here, for consistency, let's change the user id of
>> messagebus to 4 as well, so that's consistent with NixOS as well.
>> I don't think the user ID is used anywhere else.
>>
>> This fixes the DBus "Permission denied" errors that have been showing
>> up in vm-net since forever (but never seemed to cause any real harm...).
>> ---
>> pkgs/os-specific/linux/spectrum/rootfs/etc/passwd | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>

Pushed as 5ebae3db48b. :)

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