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nixos/manual: extraUsers -> users in user-mgmt.xml

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Changed extraUsers -> users and one case of extraGroups -> groups in nixos manual chapter 7.

According to chatter on IRC these are the proper names for these configuration options nowadays.

Modified based on feedback from Jörg Talheim.
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Rovanion Luckey 2017-11-22 17:46:22 +01:00
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nixos/doc/manual/configuration/user-mgmt.xml
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ management. In the declarative style, users are specified in
states that a user account named <literal>alice</literal> shall exist:
<programlisting>
users.extraUsers.alice =
users.users.alice =
{ isNormalUser = true;
home = "/home/alice";
description = "Alice Foobar";
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ to set a password, which is retained across invocations of
<para>If you set users.mutableUsers to false, then the contents of /etc/passwd
and /etc/group will be congruent to your NixOS configuration. For instance,
if you remove a user from users.extraUsers and run nixos-rebuild, the user
if you remove a user from users.users and run nixos-rebuild, the user
account will cease to exist. Also, imperative commands for managing users
and groups, such as useradd, are no longer available. Passwords may still be
assigned by setting the user's <literal>hashedPassword</literal> option. A
@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ to the user specification.</para>
group named <literal>students</literal> shall exist:
<programlisting>
users.extraGroups.students.gid = 1000;
users.groups.students.gid = 1000;
</programlisting>
As with users, the group ID (gid) is optional and will be assigned
@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ account named <literal>alice</literal>:
<screen>
# useradd -m alice</screen>
To make all nix tools available to this new user use `su - USER` which
opens a login shell (==shell that loads the profile) for given user.
To make all nix tools available to this new user use `su - USER` which
opens a login shell (==shell that loads the profile) for given user.
This will create the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. So run:
<screen>