Re: Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:04 -0800
Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 20:20 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:07:55 -0500
> > John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > > From: Martin Sivak <msivak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > the tool will be started using systemd unit file which can be 
> > > > disabled. It will have to be explicit (even minimal install
> > > > needs users or root password), but we can figure something out.
> > > 
> > > In my experience, root password is handled by the installer and
> > > firstboot is not needed to configure users if puppet is being
> > > used to configure them.  (Also there are many Fedora systems out
> > > there having only root and the system accounts -- i.e., no real
> > > users.)  Having to disable the firstbooot systemd unit file just
> > > to get to a root prompt so that puppet can be installed would be
> > > a PITA.  The whole idea of puppet is to avoid having to such
> > > things because it can automate them.
> > 
> > What he said -- forcing a root pw or creating users is going to be a
> > PITA for us. Please add a way to disable it, preferably using
> > kickstart.
> 
> You're aware that this is already the case in F18 and all previous
> releases, right? You can't get out of anaconda without setting a root
> password. He said root password OR users, not root password AND users.

Oops, sorry! Misunderstood that part. As you can tell, I need it mostly
in kickstart, have not yet run tests without that ;-)

--Stijn
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