Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 20:20 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:07:55 -0500
> John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
> 
> > > From: Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com>
> > > 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.
> > 
> > In my experience, root password is handled by the installer and
> > firstboot is not needed to configure users if puppet is being used to
> > configure them.  (Also there are many Fedora systems out there having
> > only root and the system accounts -- i.e., no real users.)  Having to
> > disable the firstbooot systemd unit file just to get to a root prompt
> > so that puppet can be installed would be a PITA.  The whole idea of
> > puppet is to avoid having to such things because it can automate them.
> 
> What he said -- forcing a root pw or creating users is going to be a
> PITA for us. Please add a way to disable it, preferably using kickstart.

You're aware that this is already the case in F18 and all previous
releases, right? You can't get out of anaconda without setting a root
password. He said root password OR users, not root password AND users.
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