User-specific shell startupt scripts

bbarker · December 10, 2018, 7:22pm

Is there a way to add user-level environment info to configuration.nix? Sorry if I missed it in the appendix - didn’t see anything likely under users.users.<name?> - end goal is to have something like environment.loginShellInit at user-level granularity, I think. The real end goal in this particular and immediate case is to have ssh-agent started when the user logs in.

bennylb · December 10, 2018, 7:46pm

This can now be done with rycee’s home-manager from within configuration.nix by importing the home-manager module. You can read more about this in the news.nix below:

github.com

nix-community/home-manager/blob/5d63abb473d930a78661a74e26b9f997d7b3ccd6/modules/misc/news.nix#L489


      
            condition = config.xsession.enable;
            message = ''
              A new option 'xsession.pointerCursor' is now available. It
              allows specifying the pointer cursor theme and size. The
              settings will be applied in the xsession, Xresources, and
              GTK configurations.
            '';
          }
          
          
{
            time = "2018-02-06T20:23:34+00:00";
            message = ''
              It is now possible to use Home Manager as a NixOS module.
              This allows you to prepare user environments from the system
              configuration file, which often is more convenient than
              using the 'home-manager' tool. It also opens up additional
              possibilities, for example, to automatically configure user
              environments in NixOS declarative containers or on systems
              deployed through NixOps.
          
          
    This feature should be considered experimental for now and

bennylb · December 10, 2018, 9:16pm

Just realised that there is also the programs.ssh.startAgent option for configuration.nix that will start the ssh-agent when the user logs in if that’s all you wanted to do.

bbarker · December 10, 2018, 11:09pm

Sweet, that’s great, though I’m certainly interested in more general options as well.