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how can i share the same profile between root and my user? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/nix

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Hello you all, so basically i installed Nix in my machine, and i wanted a way to install packages, with nix-env --install, and those packages share with the root account, i was reading about nix multi-user and i'm gonna be honest, i didn't understood shit, i need to enable daemon for both root and my user?, or this only works between users, not root?, etc. thanks for any answer!

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[–] Shareni 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You need the single user installation

The better question is do you actually need to do that. Something like sudocmd() { sudo "$(which "$1")" "${@:2}"; } will automate sudoing user packages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oh, yeah, i agree with you, that line of code is exactly what i wanted, thanks! btw, why i needed the single user installation?, wasn't multi-user made exactly for managing the packages/profiles between different users?

[–] Shareni 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wasn’t multi-user made exactly for managing the packages/profiles between different users?

No, it's allow you to have a set of packages for each user, and to give you improved security and isolation.

In this case nix download all of the packages to /nix/store, and then symlinks them to the appropriate ~/.nix-profile/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

oh, that make sense, thank you again!