On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 10:41:14AM +0300, Dr Ibrahim El-Nahhal wrote: > Dear Guix Community, > > I am reaching out to ask for your help in creating a new user account in > Guix Distro. I have used the "useradd" command to create the account, and > it was successful. However, I am unable to login to this account. > > I searched for a solution on "you.com and perlexity.ai and google bard and > chatgpt and monica google chrome extension" and it suggested using the > command "sudo guix system user USERNAME=USER HOME_DIRECTORY=DIR", but > unfortunately, the "user" option is not available in Guix System.
Once again the various AI tools are confidently incorrect :D > I want to create a new user account and a new Guix profile so that I can > experiment with other Emacs configurations such as scimax for emacs. I am > currently using Emacs EXWM on GNU Guix System Distribution and living > completely inside it, but I am still a newbie. > > Any help or guidance on how to create a new user account successfully would > be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you in advance for your time and assistance. > > Best regards, You'll want to take a look at the part of the manual about user accounts¹. Just as your first user is declared there you'll want to declare the other ones there too. Then after a guix system reconfigure you can set their password and login as normal. ¹ https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/User-Accounts.html -- Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> רנשלפ םירפא GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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