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NixOS - edit system files
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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 putso
files 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.
Arbitrary options are internal so are not shown in the options search. They're at security.pam.services..rules.
Here's the options that get added using the public options including fprintAuth: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/20d2649068508ea15323d8a7a9cbd3ddfd997103/nixos/modules/security/pam.nix#L621
Thanks! I'm still not used to the diversity of all the NixOS documentarian and was not aware that arbitrary options can be found there.