[RULE] Real Endusers installing w/ Slinky

Michael Fratoni mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Wed Jul 2 02:19:15 EEST 2003


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On Tuesday 01 July 2003 04:09 pm, Ingo Lantschner wrote:

> To make it short: Can we have a simple way to avoid the following
> during Slinky-Setup, if the Network-Packages are not selected:
> * Prompting for creation of a User
> * Typing its Fullname
> * Seting the password
>
> Instead of this I would recommend to create a user named "user",
> Fullname: "Default User", Password none. And all of this automatically.

I'll look at it. I have to tell you that I *hate* the idea of creating a 
user with an empty password. It just goes against everything I've always 
taught/been taught. I agree this might add a small amount to the learning 
curve. In my mind, it's better to learn the proper way, rather than learn 
sloppy security practices.

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