On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 1:10 PM Thompson, David wrote: > > Hi Guix, > > Issue 56444 (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56444) was caused by the activate-users+groups procedure in (gnu build activation) unconditionally setting all user home directory permission bits to 700. The fix for that bug was to set the bits for a particular user to 750 in a service activation script. The fix is quite imperfect, however, because during system reconfiguration the bits are temporarily reset back to 700 by activate-users+groups, breaking Guix's promise of atomicity. The proper fix would be to add something like a 'home-directory-permission-bits' field to , which defaults to 700, and have activate-users+groups use that value. This way, there will no longer be an unknown amount of time where the bits are reset and potentially breaking some service during that time. FInally got around to writing a patch for this! - Dave