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Merge pull request #3522 from ryantm/patch-1
add note about mutableUsers to user management section
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@ -1053,6 +1053,12 @@ a password. However, you can use the <command>passwd</command> program
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to set a password, which is retained across invocations of
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<command>nixos-rebuild</command>.</para>
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<para>If you set users.mutableUsers to false, then the contents of /etc/passwd
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and /etc/group will be congruent to your NixOS configuration. For instance,
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if you remove a user from users.extraUsers and run nixos-rebuild, the user
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account will cease to exist. Also, imperative commands for managing users
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and groups, such as useradd, are no longer available.</para>
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<para>A user ID (uid) is assigned automatically. You can also specify
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a uid manually by adding
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