Hi,

Peri Didaskalou <[email protected]> writes:

> As per the manual, I carefully edited the new user into /etc/config.scm via
> sudo emacs /etc/config.scm, with the extra line: (password (default: f#)).
> After saving the file and subsequently rebooting, I logged in as myself and
> attempted to edit the password for the new user with passwd, but the user
> account had not been created.
> So I tried the (password (crypt "InitialPassword!" "$6$abc")) suggestion. 
>  Doing so also didn't create the account.

After saving your system config file, did you run "guix system
reconfigure /etc/config.scm"? Guix doesn't read /etc/config.scm on
boot-up or when saving the system config file, only when running "guix
system init" or "guix system reconfigure".

HTH,

James Smith

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