Merge pull request #1622 from dawidd6/patch-1

doc/installing: mention incus group on NixOS
lxc · Feb 2, 2025 · eea76f8 · eea76f8
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@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ Finally, you can add users to the `incus-admin` group to provide non-root access
 
     users.users.YOUR_USERNAME.extraGroups = ["incus-admin"];
 
+Instead of giving the users a full Incus daemon access, you can add users to the `incus` group, which will only grant access to the Incus user socket. In your NixOS configuration:
+
+    users.users.YOUR_USERNAME.extraGroups = ["incus"];
+
 For any NixOS specific issues, please [file an issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/new/choose) in the package repository.
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