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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:20:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:34:30PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: >> > Good question, but the installer just setups the first account, doesn't >> > manage >> > user's accounts. >> >> The installer should set up the first account in a manner that does not >> require later management simply in order to bring it into sync with how >> future accounts would be created, especially for such a user-facing >> thing as the user's full name. > > Exactly. > > Why should my first account that is most likely mine, not show nicely > in kdm and gdm and such by default? I'm not a developer or even a regular user. My opinion is my own. But this is sort of a favorite topic with me. In a corporate environment, the user name would not necessarily have any connection with a real person. Whether Debian wants to target a corporate environment or not aside, even a privately owned machine should have an admin account separate from both root and the regular user's working account. That should probably be the first account set up. I ranted on this some years back, on my personal web server where very few people would end up seeing it, but I'll post a link to the rant for reference: <http://reiisi.homedns.org/~joel/cs/security/makesafeusers.html>. Like much on my website, it needs a lot of work, but perhaps it would provide some food for thought here. Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iP5yLFPdcqe7gOm1qzpsMtodTDBmt=s2qwgeuw+ryq...@mail.gmail.com
