Dave Miner wrote:
> Kyle McDonald wrote:
>   
>> Bart Smaalders wrote:
>>     
>>> Mike Gerdts wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> True enough.  I suspect at some time there will be someone that says
>>>> "why does every machine have a user named jack?" and no matter what
>>>> approach is used a change will be needed.  Or is this creating a user
>>>> that is specified by the person performing the installation?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> The fact that there's a jack user on every Indiana machine is a bug, plain
>>> and simple.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I know there isn't always room on the media for the live version, and a 
>> full repository.
>>
>> But this is one of the reasons that I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling 
>> when I hear talk of 'copying the livecd to the disk' as the main part of 
>> the install.
>>
>> There will always be customizations like 'jack' on the livecd. I'm not 
>> comfortable that the list of things to 'undo' after copying the files to 
>> the drive will always be 100%  up to date.
>>
>> This leaves me wanting to always install directly from the set of 
>> packages. It's also very similar to the reason I don't trust upgrades.
>>
>>     
>
> The set of customizations is actually pretty small, and will get smaller 
> as we work our way towards integrating the live CD technology as an 
> architectural element of the system, rather than as a set of add-ons as 
> it is right now.  Ultimately, there shouldn't be a difference in the 
> software that results.  We're already doing pretty well, as "pkg verify" 
> doesn't show much of anything that we control as being amiss as of 
> preview 2.
>
> BTW, you don't end up with 'jack' on every system, it gets filtered out 
> at installation.  The fact that it ends up in the ipkg branded zones is 
> a bug that I think should be easily fixable now that user actions are 
> ready, as we ought to be able to move this passwd entry to the live 
> CD-specific package.
>
>   

I just found another one. On my IN_pr2 installed system,  
/etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf has:

AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=jack

  -Kyle

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