Awesome
Run nix as user in a lightweight chrooted container.
$ mkdir -m 0755 ~/nix && chown $(whoami) ~/nix
$ nix-user-chroot ~/.nix sh
$ download and extract latest nix binary tarball
$ nix-*-linux/install
You are in a user chroot where /
is owned by your user, hence also /nix
is owned by your user. Everything else is bind mounted from the real root.
Notes:
- The nix config is not in
/etc/nix
but in/nix/etc/nix
, so that you can modify it. This is done with theNIX_CONF_DIR
, which you can override at any time. - It requires user namespaces, at least Linux 3.8.