Hello Ludo, Thanks for reviewing :) > Or perhaps that’s still not helpful but we instead need a guarantee > elsewhere that the UID/GID is going to be honored, perhaps by calling: > > (evaluate-populate-directive … #:default-gid 0 #:default-uid 0) > > and have it ignore chown when it matches #:default-uid and > #:default-gid. This seems like a good idea. This way, 'chown' is only applied if the requested uid/gid doesn't match the default one. Thanks, Mathieu