Hi, Did you "guix system reconfigure" ?
Nico On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 8:17 AM Peri Didaskalou <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello help-guix, > > I recently installed Guix System successfully, (albeit, the David Wilson > way on non-free hardware). I now want to add my first additional user. > > 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. > > Although I understood and believed the manual that useradd added > accounts are lost upon reboot I tried to it anyway, thinking perhaps it > might be a necessary confirmation > after editing the config.scm file; even if that didn't make sense to > me. So I wasn't surprised when after using useradd and passwd with sudo > to additionally add the account manually, that it also didn't work. > > Thus I'm at a loss now. Could it be that some lib of KDE is > conflicting with Guix System? Upon a few reboots I also tried logging > in at the command line of another TTY instead, as the new user, > Still no luck. So now I'm wondering if some KDE service is to blame, or > the fact that I'm using the full Linux kernel, and in so doing tripping > sheppard in some way? > > Peri > > > >
