I thought of a work-around for the particular situation described.
If the machine had exactly one non-system user account, the following
would work around it:
* Change the username to "oem"
* Move the home directory from "/home/username" to "/home/oem"
* Either (i) change every instance of the string "/home/username" to "$HOME" in
all the files in /home/oem (using a recursive search, of course) (the safer
option), or
(ii) reboot into single user mode and delete the contents of
/home/oem, and then reboot regularly (allowing the OS to repopulate the home
directory) (the quicker, but possibly dangerous option).
* As user "oem", finish configuring the machine and issue oem-config-prepare as
in the normal case.
I've pulled it off before. It's not a terribly complex procedure, but
consideration should be given to starting over by deleting the partition
and reinstalling with the alternate install disk. Most of the time that
ends up being cleaner and faster.
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oem-config does not create new user
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