| Age | Commit message (Expand) | Author |
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| 2023-10-12 | accounts: Fix typo in comment....* gnu/build/accounts.scm (passwd->shadow): Fix typo in comment.
| Ludovic Courtès |
| 2023-10-08 | accounts: Ensure ‘last-change’ field of shadow entries is never zero....* gnu/build/accounts.scm (passwd->shadow): Add ‘max’ call so NOW is
greater than or equal to 1.
| Ludovic Courtès |
| 2022-01-01 | system: Allow 'chfn' to change the user's full name....Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52539>.
Reported by Jacob First <jacob.first@member.fsf.org>.
* gnu/build/accounts.scm (allocate-passwd): Add comment as to why
'real-name' is taken from PREVIOUS. Add (not system?) to the
condition.
* gnu/system.scm (operating-system-etc-service) <login.defs>: Add
"CHFN_RESTRICT".
* gnu/system.scm (%setuid-programs): Add "chfn".
* gnu/system/pam.scm (base-pam-services): Add "chfn".
* doc/guix.texi (User Accounts): Document it.
| Ludovic Courtès |
| 2019-08-28 | accounts: Delete duplicate entries....When adding multiple instances of a service requiring some user
account/group, we could end up with multiple entries for that account or
group in /etc/passwd or /etc/group.
* gnu/build/accounts.scm (database-writer)[write-entries]: Add call to
'delete-duplicates'.
* tests/accounts.scm ("write-passwd with duplicate entry"): New test.
| Ludovic Courtès |
| 2019-06-27 | accounts: Use 'fsync' instead of 'fdatasync'....* gnu/build/accounts.scm (catch-ENOSYS): Remove.
(database-writer): Use 'fsync' instead of 'fdatasync'.
| Ludovic Courtès |
| 2019-06-05 | accounts: Call 'fdatasync' when writing databases....* gnu/build/accounts.scm (catch-ENOSYS): New macro.
(database-writer): Call 'fdatasync'.
| Ludovic Courtès |
| 2019-06-05 | accounts: Close database before renaming it....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35996>.
Reported by Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>.
* gnu/build/accounts.scm (database-writer): Move 'close-port' call
before 'rename-file'.
| Ludovic Courtès |
| 2019-06-05 | activation: Lock /etc/.pwd.lock before accessing databases....Suggested by Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
in <http://bugs.gnu.org/35996>.
* gnu/build/accounts.scm (%password-lock-file): New variable.
* gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-users+groups): Wrap calls to
'user+group-databases', 'write-group', etc. into 'with-file-lock'.
| Ludovic Courtès |
