users.extraUsers.<name>.linger

Whether to enable or disable lingering for this user. Without lingering, user units will not be started until the user logs in, and may be stopped on logout depending on the settings in logind.conf.

By default, NixOS will not manage lingering, new users will default to not lingering, and lingering can be configured imperatively using loginctl enable-linger or loginctl disable-linger. Setting this option to true or false is the declarative equivalent of running loginctl enable-linger or loginctl disable-linger respectively.

Type
null or boolean
Default
null
Example
true
Declared
<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix>