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| author | Ryan Mulligan <ryan@ryantm.com> | 2014-08-10 08:39:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Ryan Mulligan <ryan@ryantm.com> | 2014-08-10 08:39:31 -0700 |
| commit | fee04927a46a8c2368225486ef9df17bea270b92 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ce32a8eab5a3c19bad8983dc863be55e6055980 | |
| parent | ac00b1fe856e27dc1d6357344dc8f23163e926b3 (diff) | |
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add note about mutableUsers to user management section
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml index 051f0fb8c1e0..bbfb434782d0 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 |