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| author | Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru> | 2014-08-23 12:47:42 +0400 |
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| committer | Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru> | 2014-08-23 12:47:42 +0400 |
| commit | 327074682f04590bd01d72b44963afebd59494cd (patch) | |
| tree | 1636b1af94c86516692e913f3a3263c7620ca8ae | |
| parent | c80f325109fecb9fe9594971b3bfa4eed329ba8c (diff) | |
| parent | fee04927a46a8c2368225486ef9df17bea270b92 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #3522 from ryantm/patch-1
add note about mutableUsers to user management section
| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml | 6 |
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml index d35a5fff4aa4..64372f3bbf14 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml @@ -1053,6 +1053,12 @@ a password. However, you can use the <command>passwd</command> program to set a password, which is retained across invocations of <command>nixos-rebuild</command>.</para> +<para>If you set users.mutableUsers to false, then the contents of /etc/passwd +and /etc/group will be congruent to your NixOS configuration. For instance, +if you remove a user from users.extraUsers and run nixos-rebuild, the user +account will cease to exist. Also, imperative commands for managing users +and groups, such as useradd, are no longer available.</para> + <para>A user ID (uid) is assigned automatically. You can also specify a uid manually by adding |