Criterion proposal: firstboot / initial-setup / gnome-initial-setup, user creationa

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 20:44 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 17:00 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > We modify the post-install requirements like this:
> > 
> > * A system installed with a graphical package set must boot to an
> > initial setup utility on the first boot after installation. The
> > firstboot utility must be able to create a working user account if
> > this
> > was not done during installation.
> 
> Since we have fedup, and even yum/dvd upgrades work and are widely used,
> from an upgrade point of view, would it be good to include:
> 
> 2. Reuse an already existing user (fix permissions etc. and sanitize the
> environment to work correctly).
> 
> in the criteria? I know first boot did this. I haven't used
> gnome-initial setup so cannot comment on it. 

Um? I don't think firstboot does that. There's nothing to make firstboot
run on upgrades. So far as I know, there's no code anywhere that fiddles
with user accounts on upgrade in the normal case, they're just left
alone.

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