On 12/01/2008 06:08 PM, Pierre-Yves wrote:
> insane. Is it that common to have non-english login names and
> passwords, really?
Actually I can answer to that one: Yes it is ! :)
I'm talking about the account names, not the geckos. As far as I know it is not
allowed to have anything except english low case letters and numbers as an
account name. On the system I'm recovering now even
adduser -m пупкин
says "useradd: invalid user name 'пупкин'".
About the installation I also saved my /home while I switched to
Fedora
10 from Fedora 9.
On the partition screen I said this partition is my /home and on the
firstboot I said I want to create user foo. I had a nice popup saying
that user "foo" already has a /home folder do you want to use it, or do
you want a new one ?"
In my case /home had severe file system errors, it should not be mounted in
read/write without accurate manual fixing, so I had an empty (unmounted) /home
Dunno if that can help you...
I'm not looking for help, I'm trying to raise a discussion about insane default
assumptions made by installer for a fresh fedora 10 system.
--
Lev.