Bug#366107: Installing tex-common gets stuck after giving invalid group
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> I've been writing some code, but now I'm unsure about one thing: What
> will happen if somebody installs Debian newly on a clean system,
> e.g. with a CD, and chooses to install a TeX system at the very first
> moment? Does this happen before local users (and hence groups) are
> created?
No, according to
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-system-setup
users are created (in the user interface) before the base system is
installed. That should be safe for us.
It still means that probably any application server installation will be
detected as a machine used by a single user if the authentication of
users won't be done with /etc/passwd. But this question has only an
effect if somebody is seeing debconf questions, and a server admin
should know how many users are going to use TeX...
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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