Move the default profiles to the user’s home

Rather than using `/nix/var/nix/{profiles,gcroots}/per-user/`, put the user
profiles and gcroots under `$XDG_DATA_DIR/nix/{profiles,gcroots}`.

This means that the daemon no longer needs to manage these paths itself
(they are fully handled client-side). In particular, it doesn’t have to
`chown` them anymore (removing one need for root).

This does change the layout of the gc-roots created by nix-env, and is
likely to break some stuff, so I’m not sure how to properly handle that.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
index be21e3ca0..82edaa9bf 100644
--- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
@@ -201,8 +201,6 @@ LocalStore::LocalStore(const Params & params)
             throw SysError("could not set permissions on '%s' to 755", perUserDir);
     }
 
-    createUser(getUserName(), getuid());
-
     /* Optionally, create directories and set permissions for a
        multi-user install. */
     if (getuid() == 0 && settings.buildUsersGroup != "") {
@@ -1824,20 +1822,6 @@ void LocalStore::signPathInfo(ValidPathInfo & info)
 }
 
 
-void LocalStore::createUser(const std::string & userName, uid_t userId)
-{
-    for (auto & dir : {
-        fmt("%s/profiles/per-user/%s", stateDir, userName),
-        fmt("%s/gcroots/per-user/%s", stateDir, userName)
-    }) {
-        createDirs(dir);
-        if (chmod(dir.c_str(), 0755) == -1)
-            throw SysError("changing permissions of directory '%s'", dir);
-        if (chown(dir.c_str(), userId, getgid()) == -1)
-            throw SysError("changing owner of directory '%s'", dir);
-    }
-}
-
 std::optional<std::pair<int64_t, Realisation>> LocalStore::queryRealisationCore_(
         LocalStore::State & state,
         const DrvOutput & id)