HD permissions stay put

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 7/3/2011 9:33 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 20:38 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> [...]
>
> Creating that first user throught the firstboot dialogue isn't required,
> it is just a nice way to get the ball rolling. You can<ctrl><alt><f2>
> to the next tty and login as root right then yourself and reboot again,
> now skipping the firstboot process and nothing will be broken in the
> system -- you will just have to manually add the first user because GDM
> will not have a method available for you to log in now (I believe root
> logins through GDM are disabled by default still?).

Without a default user given that one can't log in a root, I don't see 
how I can get into "a user" that I can su -l from.
> Anyway, your options are to disregard creating that firstboot prompted
> user (a prompt I rarely see since I tend to install across the network
> via PXE boot -- which boots to a text configurature for networking and
> some other things, and then boots to runlevel 3 by default with no user
> accounts created) or just create a trash user account you won't use or
> delete later. Its up to you, really -- none of the useradd schenanigans
> you play are going to hurt the system in any way as long as they are>=
> 500 on Fedora and>= 1000 on Debian.
>
Friends run different Linuxes (is that the right plural?) and I'd prefer 
to have a pid/gid that is valid on both. Never bumped into issue before 
but my needs for Linux are changing and this might be an issue in the 
future, so I wanted to know what to do.

It sounds easier to do a scratch then play with runlevels, but I 
appreciate knowing there is a bypass if I want to figure out a way to 
boot into root (I presume runlevels?)

Thanks,
Paul