Re: adding user during first boot

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Tom Horsley wrote:
Now that I am being forbidden by "helpful" computer from
logging in as root, I wish the create user screen you get
during the first boot following install had an advanced
button that would bring up the system-config-users app so
I could create the user with a manually specified UID
(since I'll be accessing lots of files created by that
user on previous fedora versions, I like to keep the UID
the same).

Previously I could just skip the create user step and
login as root to create the initial user.

File an [RFE] against first boot for an advanced tap
where you can specify user ID and Group ID path to /home and Login shell manually.

Explain the problems with having the root account being disabled in GDM
As in you first have to create a user then log in as that user to run s-c-u.

I thought that there had been a discussion on having the root
account enabled and root "desktop" be tailored for rescue/administrative tasks but apparently not...

File another RFE of removal of the "other" field in GDM since it servers
no purpose for the normal desktop user anymore. If they are going to throw some idiotic logic at you that they need to have the other field for corporate deployments throw it back at them that the sysadmin deploying those desktop should possess the necessary knowledge to turn the other field on while deploying the desktop via kickstart or some other means.

You can as always enter run level 3 run s-c-u and then just turn of first boot.
( chkconfig firstboot off ) and reboot.

If you wish to enable root login via GDM simply remove "user !=root quite" from /etc/pam.d/gdm file

JBG



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