Allow different users for a nixos or darwin configuration

[bestlem]

Currently this usses myself as a global and only user.

Can machine setips also take a user name (possibly optional) my user name differs on different machines.

In some ways this is the generalisation of issue #19 for none homeManager configs.

I think this means mkLinuxSystem and mkMacosSystem have an optional parameter user that sets myself.

[srid]

I don't think this requires changing the mkLinuxSystem API. I think there are other ways to achieve what you want, for example, you can create a flake-parts module, as I've done here, or you can use _module.args at top-level to pass the user name.

[bestlem]

Part of the issue is that I am trying to learn nix and I need an actual example of multiple users. I find the nix language pretty impenetrable and I have used may languages. (I would use guix as it an existing language except that I need to use macos)

I look at your config https://github.com/srid/nixos-config/blob/master/users/default.nix and see it can only have one user which you set by setting myself = "srid"; and the myself is how you get the username in all of the other nix files. So I need to set myself differently for different machines - how do I do that?

[srid]

In that case you probably want to write a nixos module: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_modules

I recommend https://app.element.io/#/room/#nix:nixos.org as a general place to ask Nix related queries.