config: give up on this experiment

This ended up being way more trouble than it was worth, and the approach
just flat out didn't work for stuff like OpenSSH.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/modules/home/default.nix b/modules/home/default.nix
index 0ad1cb85b255..780bac85b334 100644
--- a/modules/home/default.nix
+++ b/modules/home/default.nix
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ let
         type = nullOr str;
       };
       group = mkOption {
-        default = "users";
-        type = str;
+        default = null;
+        type = nullOr str;
       };
       permissions = mkOption {
         default = "0700";
@@ -31,10 +31,12 @@ let
       owner = if dir.owner == null
               then user
               else config.users.users.${dir.owner};
+
+      group = if dir.group == null then owner.group else dir.group;
     in
       ''
         chmod ${dir.permissions} .
-        chown ${owner.name}:${dir.group} .
+        chown ${owner.name}:${group} .
         ${concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues dir.activationScripts)}
       '';