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Is multi user nix safe?
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(package_manager)
What's your point? Nix is meant for CI, but even still the defaults are set for multi-user operations.
Nix is absolutely not just for CI, the idea is to use it locally as well, so the CI runs in the same environment.