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authorMichael Hoang <enzime@users.noreply.github.com>2024-10-24 23:19:27 +1100
committerMichael Hoang <enzime@users.noreply.github.com>2024-10-27 21:26:19 +1100
commitbd161d61d6f322e1c16543b67b1dbd13934e763c (patch)
tree352fe7e8263a4ebc9b258f39d6628c302ee8bab4 /modules/users
parentc9af5c2d1394d1bc34f4722998bcd51714ccd68c (diff)
users: allow `home` to be managed by macOS
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/users')
-rw-r--r--modules/users/default.nix13
-rw-r--r--modules/users/user.nix14
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/modules/users/default.nix b/modules/users/default.nix
index f293f77..0b2ffd9 100644
--- a/modules/users/default.nix
+++ b/modules/users/default.nix
@@ -236,7 +236,13 @@ in
requireFDA ${name} "created"
- sysadminctl -addUser ${lib.escapeShellArgs ([ v.name "-UID" v.uid "-GID" v.gid ] ++ (lib.optionals (v.description != null) [ "-fullName" v.description ]) ++ [ "-home" v.home "-shell" (shellPath v.shell) ])} 2> /dev/null
+ sysadminctl -addUser ${lib.escapeShellArgs ([
+ v.name
+ "-UID" v.uid
+ "-GID" v.gid ]
+ ++ (lib.optionals (v.description != null) [ "-fullName" v.description ])
+ ++ (lib.optionals (v.home != null) [ "-home" v.home ])
+ ++ [ "-shell" (shellPath v.shell) ])} 2> /dev/null
# We need to check as `sysadminctl -addUser` still exits with exit code 0 when there's an error
if ! id ${name} &> /dev/null; then
@@ -245,7 +251,10 @@ in
fi
dscl . -create ${dsclUser} IsHidden ${if v.isHidden then "1" else "0"}
- ${optionalString v.createHome "createhomedir -cu ${name}"}
+
+ # `sysadminctl -addUser` won't create the home directory if we use the `-home`
+ # flag so we need to do it ourselves
+ ${optionalString (v.home != null && v.createHome) "createhomedir -cu ${name} > /dev/null"}
fi
# Update properties on known users to keep them inline with configuration
diff --git a/modules/users/user.nix b/modules/users/user.nix
index a0c8aab..b9c9799 100644
--- a/modules/users/user.nix
+++ b/modules/users/user.nix
@@ -53,9 +53,17 @@
# };
home = mkOption {
- type = types.path;
- default = "/var/empty";
- description = "The user's home directory.";
+ type = types.nullOr types.path;
+ default = null;
+ description = ''
+ The user's home directory. This defaults to `null`.
+
+ When this is set to `null`, the value is managed by macOS instead of
+ `nix-darwin`. This means if the user has not been created yet,
+ `sysadminctl` will be called without the `-home` flag which means the
+ user will have a default home directory of `/Users/<name>` which will
+ be created by `sysadminctl`.
+ '';
};
createHome = mkOption {