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docs: Explain how to set password-less logins. #92240

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@nh2 nh2 commented Jul 4, 2020

Motivation for this change

This explains the

# Allow the user to log in as root without a password.
users.users.root.initialHashedPassword = "";

that the NixOS installer live systems use in profiles/installation-device.nix.

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This explains the

    # Allow the user to log in as root without a password.
    users.users.root.initialHashedPassword = "";

that the NixOS installer live systems use in
`profiles/installation-device.nix`.
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rtldg commented Jul 4, 2020

This broke building from master for me

building '/nix/store/gspx169xvvncafpniw73kvk7j4bnqyjx-options-docbook.xml.drv'...
intermediate.xml:70793: parser error : error parsing attribute name
<option>users.users.<name?>.password</option>.
...

Replacing <name?> with &lt;name?&gt; fixed it

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Mic92 commented Jul 4, 2020

I will push a fix.

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Mic92 commented Jul 4, 2020

Fixed in b2aa673

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nh2 commented Jul 4, 2020

This broke building from master for me

Wop, sorry. Does ofborg not build the manual?

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Mic92 commented Jul 5, 2020

This broke building from master for me

Wop, sorry. Does ofborg not build the manual?

no.

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