Bug 739428

Summary: kickstart user doesn't work correctly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Lane <bcl>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-16.19-1.fc16 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Brian Lane 2011-09-19 01:59:26 UTC 
The createUser function was modified to use kwargs instead of explicit arguments. It checks to see if various attributes are in the kwargs or not, using that logic to set the homedir to the user specified homedir or the default /home

The problem is that pykickstart sets all of these to defaults like "" and False. So the attributes will always be set. So createUser needs to check for values in addition to the attribute's existance in kwargs.

The work-around is to specify all of the various settings for the kickstart user command.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2011-09-23 21:48:50 UTC 
anaconda-16.19-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.19-1.fc16
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-09-24 04:35:30 UTC 
anaconda-16.19-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.