On 7/3/2011 9:33 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 20:38 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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Creating that first user throught the firstboot dialogue isn't required,
it is just a nice way to get the ball rolling. You can<ctrl><alt><f2>
to the next tty and login as root right then yourself and reboot again,
now skipping the firstboot process and nothing will be broken in the
system -- you will just have to manually add the first user because GDM
will not have a method available for you to log in now (I believe root
logins through GDM are disabled by default still?).
Without a default user given that one can't log in a root, I don't see
how I can get into "a user" that I can su -l from.
Anyway, your options are to disregard creating that firstboot
prompted
user (a prompt I rarely see since I tend to install across the network
via PXE boot -- which boots to a text configurature for networking and
some other things, and then boots to runlevel 3 by default with no user
accounts created) or just create a trash user account you won't use or
delete later. Its up to you, really -- none of the useradd schenanigans
you play are going to hurt the system in any way as long as they are>=
500 on Fedora and>= 1000 on Debian.
Friends run different Linuxes (is that the right plural?) and I'd prefer
to have a pid/gid that is valid on both. Never bumped into issue before
but my needs for Linux are changing and this might be an issue in the
future, so I wanted to know what to do.
It sounds easier to do a scratch then play with runlevels, but I
appreciate knowing there is a bypass if I want to figure out a way to
boot into root (I presume runlevels?)
Thanks,
Paul