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Generally speaking, you should use the username root and the password you specified at the very end of the installation process.

Alternatively, you can create a user in your configuration.nix and supply a hashed password. However, that isn’t required. If you want to try that instead you can do it like this:

  users.users.dalto = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    hashedPassword = "$6$sxrNsu3.EwRXYAAG$flowzjKcDepdPSqA5d4Y6y/HzupxndqmrcjwExbR7H05PgAOo91Q2yXGsdmavXRZpM8ROEcN9pVNhnmZA2NIo.";
    extraGroups = [ "wheel" ]; 
  };

To generate the password hash you use mkpasswd -m sha-512, for example:

$ mkpasswd -m sha-512 password
$6$sxrNsu3.EwRXYAAG$flowzjKcDepdPSqA5d4Y6y/HzupxndqmrcjwExbR7H05PgAOo91Q2yXGsdmavXRZpM8ROEcN9pVNhnmZA2NIo.
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