Multi-user nix on darwin

[copumpkin]

Shouldn't be hard, I hear

[shlevy]

It's not really a nixpkgs issue... It's just a matter of configuration. You need to create the nixbld group, add a bunch of users with it as both their primary group and as a supplemental group, and change the nix.conf settings. Then just run nix-daemon as a launch agent.

[copumpkin]

Yeah, but isn't the install script in nixpkgs? And that's what would set those things up?

[shlevy]

Which install script? Do you mean https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh in NixOS/nix?

[copumpkin]

I always assumed the install script invoked by this was in nixpkgs, but perhaps not!

[shlevy]

Nope, that script itself is here and the scripts it downloads are generated from install-nix-from-closure.sh

[copumpkin]

Interesting, thanks! Anyway, it'd be nice if we got it regardless 😄 it might not be part of nixpkgs, but I want to keep the things for darwin nix together until we're better organized (or done).