Crawford Long on Nostr: Here’s my dumb #nixos question of the week. How can I, as administrator of a ...
Here’s my dumb #nixos question of the week. How can I, as administrator of a particular computer with multiple users using Home Manager, update another user’s environment? I can edit the home.nix file, of course, but how can I do a “remote” home-manager switch that updates another user’s packages and settings on their behalf when they don’t have admin rights?
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