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How to set file permissions with home-manager? (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by secana@programming.dev to c/nix@programming.dev

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Hi! I ran into the issue that my kube config, which I manage with home-manager is world read- and writable. I hoped that there is an easy option to set file permissions with home-manager, e.g. home.file."foo".permissions = 0644 but something like this does not exist. All solutions a short web search turns up are overly complicated for something that seems to be a trivial task.

What is the easiest way to set permissions for a file with home-manager?

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[–] secana@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response. I'll have a look at it. It still astonishes me that there is no off-the-shelf solution to such a trivial and common use case.

[–] matejc@mastodon.social 2 points 6 months ago

@secana If you manage it with homemanager it will be world readable anyway, since it is a symlink to nix store, and files inside the nix store are always world readable