Bug 1144623
| Summary: | RFE: skip user creation on intial setup & gnome intial setup | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk> |
| Component: | gnome-initial-setup | Assignee: | Rui Matos <rmatos> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | alexander.naumann, dmaziuk, echen, olchansk, tom, vbenes |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2017-03-13 13:26:09 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Dimitri Maziuk
2014-09-19 22:46:44 UTC
(In reply to Dimitri Maziuk from comment #0) > please add the "I will configure user accounts later" button to the user > creation screen so I can get past it. > > (With "yes I really know what I'm doing" check box if you need to.) Well, Initial Setup does not force you to create a user account. Once you accept the EULA, you can click the FINISH CONFIGURATION button right away, without creating a new user. Or did you mean something else ? I really don't care which component is responsible, it looks like there's 3: install, initial setup, and gnome first run -- I just want to be able to install it and fire it up without making a non-root user. At the moment it won't let me. Can you install a centos7/rh7 giu workstation without making a non-root user? (In reply to Dimitri Maziuk from comment #3) > I really don't care which component is responsible, it looks like there's 3: > install, initial setup, and gnome first run -- I just want to be able to > install it and fire it up without making a non-root user. It is definitely not a problem in Initial Setup - Initial Setup lets you proceed without creating a user. > At the moment it won't let me. Can you install a centos7/rh7 giu workstation
> without making a non-root user?
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Please take a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965797 esp. comment 20. As of mid-September using kickstart without *both* initial-setup and gnome-initial-setup is still the only way to install a rh7 gui workstation without creating a local user. OK, centos build 7.1 let me past initial setup without creating a user, but gnome still persists. My users are in LDAP. My /home is NFS-mounted. Gnome creating a homedir there messes up the automounter later. Local user creation makes sense on ubuntu where root is disabled from the start and you cannot login and configure your auth without another account. If root is not disabled it serves no purpose. An enterprise will most likely have a single sign-on so in an enterprise distribution this is annoying at best. gnome-initial-setup lets you set up ldap accounts, by using the 'Enterprise Login' button. If you want to skip gnome-initial-setup entirely, you can do so, by putting InitialSetupEnable=false into the [daemon] section of /etc/gdm/custom.conf You will still get gnome-initial-setup running inside the user session the first time you log in. To prevent that, you can create a file named ~/.config/gnome-initial-setup-done in the users home directory. (In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #8) Creating a user makes perfect sense on mac'oh-buntu where root account is disabled out of the box. On RHEL it isn't, all I need is login as root. The problem is *I don't get to login* until after I've created a local user account. For myself I only need to get past this so I can install epel & xfce, to make it all particularly annoying. ;) After setting up another pc: there is another simple way around this: just select "kde plasma workspaces" instead of a gui workstation install. No gnome, no gnome-initial-setup, can login, install gnome and edit its config files as per #c8 (In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #8) > gnome-initial-setup lets you set up ldap accounts ... For the record, we use NIS, not LDAP. No way to install 7.1 without creating (and later deleting) a fake local user. Makes no sense to have a "Enterprise" product reject a common enterprise configuration and default to something more suitable for personal laptop or home PC. K.O. Install "kde workspaces" instead, then group-install gnome after setting up authconfig etc. Although I have to say, I ran into enough little things that are not working or simply missing compared to 6.x by now that I'm not upgrading any more workstations. (In reply to Dimitri Maziuk from comment #12) > Install "kde workspaces" instead ... this does not help with the initial installation of 7.1 using stock installer - the only options I am offered is - LDAP or create (then delete) a fake local user. acceptable solution would be - restore support for NIS or make mandatory creation of local user optional. K.O. (In reply to Konstantin Olchanski from comment #13) > (In reply to Dimitri Maziuk from comment #12) > > Install "kde workspaces" instead ... > > this does not help with the initial installation of 7.1 using stock > installer - the only options I am offered is - LDAP or create (then delete) > a fake local user. Interesting... I was able to get past initial setup without creating a user in centos 7.1. 7.0 initial install insisted on the local user, in 7.1 it's only gnome that wanted a local user. I used the "everything" or whatever it's called installer off a usb stick. OK, I lied. You have to edit gdm/custom.conf as per #8 after group-installing gnome. Still, my recipe gets you to the point where you can actually do it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1226819 *** |