adding user during first boot

Benjamín Valero Espinosa benjavalero at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 10:26:34 UTC 2008


2008/11/6 Tom Horsley

> Now that I am being forbidden by "helpful" computer from
> logging in as root, I wish the create user screen you get
> during the first boot following install had an advanced
> button that would bring up the system-config-users app so
> I could create the user with a manually specified UID
> (since I'll be accessing lots of files created by that
> user on previous fedora versions, I like to keep the UID
> the same).
>
> Previously I could just skip the create user step and
> login as root to create the initial user.


Uff, I thought that English language had commas :S This e-mail has left me
breathless.

Anyway, I agree with Tom, I use to workaround that creating an initial fake
user, logging with him and then creating my real user with my real UID.
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