On 12/01/2008 06:08 PM, Pierre-Yves wrote: >> insane. Is it that common to have non-english login names and >> passwords, really? > > Actually I can answer to that one: Yes it is ! :) I'm talking about the account names, not the geckos. As far as I know it is not allowed to have anything except english low case letters and numbers as an account name. On the system I'm recovering now even adduser -m пупкин says "useradd: invalid user name 'пупкин'". > About the installation I also saved my /home while I switched to Fedora > 10 from Fedora 9. > On the partition screen I said this partition is my /home and on the > firstboot I said I want to create user foo. I had a nice popup saying > that user "foo" already has a /home folder do you want to use it, or do > you want a new one ?" In my case /home had severe file system errors, it should not be mounted in read/write without accurate manual fixing, so I had an empty (unmounted) /home > Dunno if that can help you... I'm not looking for help, I'm trying to raise a discussion about insane default assumptions made by installer for a fresh fedora 10 system. -- Lev. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
