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



Control: tag -1 wontfix

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> (2006-11-15):
> 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.

Yeah, having those play with some GUI tools should be enough. Not sure
that's feasible within Xfce though, so just tagging this bug report with
wontfix for now, and not closing just yet.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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