Kyle McDonald wrote:
> 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
> 

Right, I keep forgetting to file the bug on that.  Want to do the honor?

Dave

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