Merge pull request #128 from kalbasit/nix-darwin_create-user-directory

users: create the home directory when creating a new user

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/users/default.nix b/modules/users/default.nix
index 5e75694..e791a49 100644
--- a/modules/users/default.nix
+++ b/modules/users/default.nix
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ in
           dscl . -create '/Users/${v.name}' RealName '${v.description}'
           dscl . -create '/Users/${v.name}' NFSHomeDirectory '${v.home}'
           dscl . -create '/Users/${v.name}' UserShell '${v.shell}'
+          ${optionalString v.createHome "createhomedir -cu '${v.name}'"}
         else
           if [ "$u" -ne ${toString v.uid} ]; then
             echo "warning: existing user '${v.name}' has unexpected uid $u, skipping..." >&2
diff --git a/modules/users/user.nix b/modules/users/user.nix
index ec8ecb8..44fb107 100644
--- a/modules/users/user.nix
+++ b/modules/users/user.nix
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ with lib;
       description = "The user's home directory.";
     };
 
+    createHome = mkOption {
+      type = types.bool;
+      default = false;
+      description = "Create the home directory when creating the user.";
+    };
+
     shell = mkOption {
       type = types.either types.shellPackage types.path;
       default = "/sbin/nologin";