Bug#799976: wish: support passwd/root-login=false AND passwd/make-user=false

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> On some system that I preseed-install, I don't want any root password
> set nor do I want a normal user account.  I get access to the system via
> SSH, using a public-key that I populate using a late_command.

So you want a system that you can not fix if it needs to prompt for a
root password to manually run fsck?  There are after all a few times
where being able to login as root directly on the console is required.
Not allowing ssh with a pasword as root is a good diea (and the default
these days), but that does not mean you don't still need a root password.

> I have tried the following combination:
> 
> d-i passwd/root-login boolean false
> d-i passwd/make-user boolean false
> 
> However, it still asks me for a normal user account name.  So I reckon
> that what I want is simply not support, hence this wishlist report.
> 
> Is there any reason why this is a bad idea?

So the answer to that is obviously yes then.

-- 
Len Sorensen