From b81c6e0ace8c3109352be28bb9ed9a856a215ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Thalheim?= <joerg@thalheim.io>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 11:30:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] default to root for autologin in nixos kexec image

---
 nix/noninteractive.nix | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nix/noninteractive.nix b/nix/noninteractive.nix
index 2e2d888..ee87048 100644
--- a/nix/noninteractive.nix
+++ b/nix/noninteractive.nix
@@ -36,10 +36,14 @@
   users.users.nixos = {
     isSystemUser = true;
     isNormalUser = lib.mkForce false;
+    shell = "/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash";
     group = "nixos";
   };
   users.groups.nixos = {};
 
+  # we prefer root as this is also what we use in nixos-anywhere
+  services.getty.autologinUser = lib.mkForce "root";
+
   # we are missing this from base.nix
   boot.supportedFilesystems = [
     "btrfs"