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[Labs]: Add support to extra users

Although there are users available through LDAP/Kerberos authentication (e.g. ist1xxxx), support extra users is a needed feature. Some examples of needed users are:

  • welcome user to students that don't have AFS enabled get the opportunity to activate it.
  • lxmls user to use during the Lisbon ML event.

Some extra properties needed to configure an user are:

  • volatile (boolean): If user's home is volatile
  • expires (string): Set the date on which the user’s account will no longer be accessible. (NixOS Option)
  • home (string): Home path if different from the default