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NixOS - edit system files
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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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I did some digging around in the manual, and I tested this option which seems to work:
On my machine that adds this line to
/etc/pam.d/doas:Edit: Note that the NixOS option puts in the full path to
pam_fprintd.so. That's necessary because NixOS doesn't putsofiles in search paths.Without doing more research I don't know how to add arbitrary options to pam files in case you run into something that isn't mapped to a NixOS option yet. The implementation for the pam options is here; there might be something in there that would work.
Thanks very much. That's exactly what I needed. I'm still not used to the diversity of NixOS documentation and was not aware of this one.
Just realized that I had this line in my config already but the change was not applied until I reboot. 😳