Dave Miner wrote:
> 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?
>
I'll see if I can figure it out. It's defects.opensolaris.org, right?

  -Kyle

> Dave


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