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| author | Joachim Schiele <js@lastlog.de> | 2015-02-28 15:30:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Rok Garbas <rok@garbas.si> | 2016-01-20 04:59:16 +0100 |
| commit | 2a88417f033cd9ac656a75e1f5734895f8a247d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 72378d6b27dc8d71b107f7eebf2544e4f3850737 /nixos/doc/manual/configuration | |
| parent | 95db340fd0b0d2710285846cc682156f9aa6c8ab (diff) | |
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nixos/doc: fix to: ~/.nix-defexpr wasn't created, fixes #6606
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/user-mgmt.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/user-mgmt.xml index 40362fbbb23..63174205927 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/user-mgmt.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/user-mgmt.xml @@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ account named <literal>alice</literal>: <screen> $ useradd -m alice</screen> +To make all nix tools available to this new user use `su - USER` which +opens a login shell (==shell that loads the profile) for given user. +This will create the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. So run: + +<screen> +$ su - alice -c "true"</screen> + + The flag <option>-m</option> causes the creation of a home directory for the new user, which is generally what you want. The user does not have an initial password and therefore cannot log in. A password can |