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On May 21, 2013 11:50 AM, "Adam Williamson" <<a href="mailto:awilliam@redhat.com">awilliam@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 14:25 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:<br>
> > So I'm writing a blog post on this topic ATM, and that really kinda<br>
> > brought home how messy this design is at present.<br>
><br>
> So! I've been poking through the logic of this for the last few days,<br>
> still, and with some further testing of exactly what g-i-s and i-s<br>
> actually do, and what anaconda and firstboot did in previous releases, I<br>
> have an even simpler proposal:<br>
><br>
> Make anaconda warn if you don't create a user, and nuke initial-setup<br>
> for non-OEM installs.<br>
><br>
> Here is how F18 behaved:<br>
><br>
> * anaconda only let you create a root password, no user creation<br>
> * firstboot ran on graphical installs, not text<br>
> * firstboot would let you skip the user creation step, with a warning<br>
><br>
> So here are all the things you could do with F18 and earlier:<br>
><br>
> * Do a text install and create user account manually after initial login<br>
> if you want one<br>
> * Do a graphical install and create a user using firstboot<br>
> * Do a graphical install, skip user creation in firstboot, and create<br>
> user account manually if you want one<br>
><br>
> Since F19 has user creation in anaconda, we can actually cover all those<br>
> scenarios in anaconda quite easily. Literally all we have to do is make<br>
> it pop up a warning if you try to quit the installer without creating a<br>
> user account, but let you go ahead if you really want to.<br>
><br>
> If we do that, then initial-setup is entirely superfluous to<br>
> requirements. Anaconda would be able to do everything necessary, and<br>
> would be encouraging people down the right path, but those who really<br>
> want to do installs with no user account would still be able to.<br>
><br>
> gnome-initial-setup would still be a different case, as GNOME apparently<br>
> really wants to force the creation of a non-root account. So g-i-s will<br>
> likely want to go on popping up if a user account was not created during<br>
> installation. But that's entirely up to the desktop team what they want<br>
> to do, and it's not at all incompatible with this proposal.<br>
><br>
> So basically, I think we can just do a simple tweak to anaconda and not<br>
> bother running initial-setup at all on a 'normal' install. We can of<br>
> course keep it around for the OEM case, but that doesn't need to bother<br>
> anyone else.</p>
<p>+1</p>