Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

Martin Sivak msivak at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 14:15:05 UTC 2013


Hi,

the tool will be started using systemd unit file which can be disabled. It will have to be explicit (even minimal install needs users or root password), but we can figure something out.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
> 
> > From: Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>
> > 
> > = Features/NewFirstboot =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewFirstboot
> 
> Please consider in the development of this to provide a simple means
> to bypass this as easily as is currently possible with firstboot.
> Our use case rarely involves making a custom kickstart (where we
> could exclude this), but we do use the standard install image either
> in Mimimal mode or with a user's preferred DE and then we have
> puppet (or ansible or the like) do the rest, including
> authentication set up, etc. I only mention this because in a Fedora
> of long ago, firstboot insisted on creating a local user and it was
> obnoxious to have to boot into single user mode first just so that
> firstboot could be removed, puppet installed and the rest of the set
> up be automated as desired.
> 
> Firstboot is great for those who need it, but please remember that
> not all need it.
> 
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