<autogenerated-issue> Tried to uninstall. /nix and ~/.nix-profile not deleted. about nix-installer

[sambacha]

Manually removing associated Nix System Keychain credentials

Important

The password it is requesting is stored in your System Keychain.

Keychain Access Application, searching for 'nix'

Manually removing the encrypted keychain passwords for your nix store

Try uninstalling (/nix/nix-installer uninstall) and checking your keychain¹ for any "Nix Store" passwords. You can open Keychain Access via x-help-action://openApp?bundleId=com.apple.keychainaccess²

The reason why your password does not work is that there is a secure password generated at install that is used and stored in the keychain! Here is an example of the password that could be used (generated using openssl rand -hex 32)

Warning

DO NOT Manually change the password, either delete it or do not touch it!

8c493f2bde73c75fee03dd72d02cd2b9597076259152b75907718236f5066e6a

This is created at install, and is added automatically by the Nix installer for use by /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.darwin-store.plist

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. keychain access docs: https://support.apple.com/guide/keychain-access/welcome/11.0/mac/14.4 ↩

2. support doc on keychain access: https://support.apple.com/guide/keychain-access/delete-a-keychain-kyca2423/11.0/mac/14.4 ↩

[agingorange]

Thanks for the response. I just saw the partition "magically" disappeared. It's been too long for me and can't remember if I did anything special after I asked this.