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Is multi user nix safe? (mander.xyz)

submitted 12 hours ago by ranzispa@mander.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking of setting up multi user nix on a compute cluster. The advantage would be to have a shared storage where common packages are reused, this is a great advantage compared to conda where every environment duplicates storage and inodes.

However, the packages are installed as root. As such I'm a bit wary of whether a user installing something could have the system run malware as root by installing a package.

What are the safeguards in place and how do I know I can trust them?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you want explain a bit more?

Linux is Linux. If you're using the standard install packages like Pam, then it's built specifically for multiple users.

Elaborate more if you could.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(package_manager)

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What's your point? Nix is meant for CI, but even still the defaults are set for multi-user operations.

[–] libewa@feddit.org 0 points 1 hour ago

Nix is absolutely not just for CI, the idea is to use it locally as well, so the CI runs in the same environment.