User accounts are shared between system generations

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Ian Eure wrote 37 hours ago

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Message-ID:874j00o65m.fsf@retrospec.tv

Found this one on accident today and was surprised. To reproduce:

- Remove your user account from your system configuration on

accident.

- `sudo guix system reconfigure'

- Realize your mistake. Observe that neither `su' nor `sudo'

work, because you don’t exist.

- Reboot in a state of mild panic.

- Select any previous system generation from GRUB.

Expected result: previous generations should have the account

which was deleted, since it was declared in the configurations

which produced them.

Actual result: They don’t.

-- Ian

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