Bug#398655: installation-report: optionally create more than one user during installation

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 11/15/06, Martin Wuertele <martin@wuertele.net> wrote:
> Hi Frans!
>
> * Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [2006-11-15 05:02]:
>
> > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 21:26, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> > > It would be nice to be able to add more than one user during
> > > installation.
> >
> > Could you give a somewhat stronger rationale than just "it would be nice"?
> > What use case do you have in mind where adding extra users after the
> > reboot into the installed system is not sufficient?
>
> I occasionally set up a linux box for relatives or friends where you
> usually have between 2 and 5 users and while they're used to be able to
> define several users when eg installing XP this is not yet possible with
> d-i and when I set up the users cmd-line it looks to them a bit "scary".
> It's mere for the show effect "see you can define the users during
> installtion just like with XP".
>
> yours Martin

I suppose those users only used GUI on XP, and in that case GNOME and
KDE sure have facilities for that. It would still be a nice feature
though.