HJi Fredrik,
I guess CC'ing [email protected] doesn't include sending replies to the
list, at least not from end.
I've already replied to three other seven helpful replies.
I'm 8-times grateful now that you've all reminded me of my carelessness
in not remembering to reconfigure
guix system after changing /etc/config.scm.
All's well now, I'm on my way.
Many Thanks,
Peri
On 2026-04-07 12:41, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote:
Hi Peri,
Peri Didaskalou<[email protected]> writes:
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.
Did you reconfigure the system after editing `/etc/config.scm`? E.g.
```
sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
```
Guix will only pick up changes to the system by running a guix system
reconfigure [0].
[0]https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/After-System-Installation.html
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?
