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The flag <option>-m</option> causes the creation of a home directory

     

       
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To make all nix tools available to this new user use `su - USER` which 

     

       
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This will create the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. So run:

     

       
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The flag <option>-m</option> causes the creation of a home directory

     

       
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for the new user, which is generally what you want.  The user does not

     

       
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have an initial password and therefore cannot log in.  A password can