On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:15:54AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 09:30 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:44:25PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Thinking about it more, this really seems to be the way to go. Forcing > > > user creation in anaconda is a problem for someone who wants to do a > > > minimal install with no user account. Doing the above would reduce the > > > paths to something manageable without compromising any existing use > > > cases. > > > > Who'd want to do a minimal install and not create an account? > > (And wouldn't be doing that using a kickstart or another specialized > > install method?) > > Prior to F19 it was what happened by default: there was no user creation > in anaconda, and no CLI firstboot in Fedora (for a while there was one > but it didn't offer user creation); so on a minimal install you only had > to set a root password and you wound up with a system with just the root > user. I know, and it was a pain to remember the right groupadd/useradd commands! Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
