The login screen does not offer the option to log in to the admin account. When installing NixOS, I set up the admin password as different to the usual login password.
I want to open the config file, but as I understand, the user I am logged in as does not have access to root. This is my first time using both NixOS and GNOME.
Use sudoedit/sudo -e in a terminal to open the file.
In the long run it makes some things easier to moving it to a user writeable location and use regular tools to edit it while keeping a symlink in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix that points to your actual configuration.
Alternatives are to always manually pass -I nixos-config=/actual/path/to/configuration.nix or creating an equivalent entry in NIX_PATH environment variable
Thank you! I am very new to this.
Seeing that after I used the command sudo the system asked me the user password and not the admin password, I now don’t understand what the admin password is needed for.
To actually log in as root.
Though you should never do that.
Some even set roots entry in /etc/shadow to ! forbidding any interactive login for that user, but still allows for impersonation using su or elevation using sudo.