On 7/3/2011 9:33 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 20:38 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > [...] > > Creating that first user throught the firstboot dialogue isn't required, > it is just a nice way to get the ball rolling. You can<ctrl><alt><f2> > to the next tty and login as root right then yourself and reboot again, > now skipping the firstboot process and nothing will be broken in the > system -- you will just have to manually add the first user because GDM > will not have a method available for you to log in now (I believe root > logins through GDM are disabled by default still?). Without a default user given that one can't log in a root, I don't see how I can get into "a user" that I can su -l from. > Anyway, your options are to disregard creating that firstboot prompted > user (a prompt I rarely see since I tend to install across the network > via PXE boot -- which boots to a text configurature for networking and > some other things, and then boots to runlevel 3 by default with no user > accounts created) or just create a trash user account you won't use or > delete later. Its up to you, really -- none of the useradd schenanigans > you play are going to hurt the system in any way as long as they are>= > 500 on Fedora and>= 1000 on Debian. > Friends run different Linuxes (is that the right plural?) and I'd prefer to have a pid/gid that is valid on both. Never bumped into issue before but my needs for Linux are changing and this might be an issue in the future, so I wanted to know what to do. It sounds easier to do a scratch then play with runlevels, but I appreciate knowing there is a bypass if I want to figure out a way to boot into root (I presume runlevels?) Thanks, Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
