diff --git a/nixos/common/default.nix b/nixos/common/default.nix
index c84ce70d..7521d95b 100644
--- a/nixos/common/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/common/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # A default configuration that applies to all servers.
 # Common configuration across *all* the machines
-{ config, lib, ... }:
+{
+  config,
+  lib,
+  options,
+  ...
+}:
 {
 
   imports = [
@@ -15,6 +20,13 @@
     ./zfs.nix
   ];
 
+  # Create users with https://github.com/nikstur/userborn rather than our perl script.
+  # Don't enable if we detect impermanence, which is not compatible with it: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence/pull/223
+  # as well as agenix: https://github.com/ryantm/agenix/pull/255
+  services.userborn.enable = lib.mkIf (
+    !((options.environment ? persistence && options.environment.persistence.enable) || options ? age)
+  ) (lib.mkDefault true);
+
   # Use systemd during boot as well except:
   # - systems with raids as this currently require manual configuration: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/210210
   # - for containers we currently rely on the `stage-2` init script that sets up our /etc