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!

  • ShareniEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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/