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Bug#490899: user-setup-udeb: way to (easily) *not* create a user, but do the root password setup



Control: tag -1 confirmed
Control: severity -1 important

Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> (2008-07-15):
> Package: user-setup-udeb
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi
> 
> Would be nice if there is an easy way to skip creation of an user
> account but still do the rest of the task user-setup-udeb usually does.
> 
> IE, when I entered the root password and then leave the username blank
> (login name), it currently displays a warning (fine), but then jumps
> back and tries to do it all again. It should please ask something like
> 
> "Maybe you want to go without a normal user account?"
> 
> and then skip the user creation. And if you only ask that in case no
> login name was entered it will only be displayed to very few users, so
> not distracting most people.
> 
> Yes, one could enter some foo=bar during boot, to preseed some value and
> pass by that. But - sometimes its hard to do that (broken kvm over
> ip not letting you enter all characters is one reason), so it would be
> nice if it can be skipped during d-i run too.

I agree this is very desirable; confirming, and bumping severity.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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