Description of problem: I want to create the user on my newly installed system with the same UID and group that the user had on previous installs so that all the files on unmodified partitions are still owned by the same user. Now that f10 conveniently makes it impossible for root to login to gdm, I can no longer simply skip the user creation page and create the user later as root. Instead I am forced to create a dummy user I don't need, just so I can login as dummy, create the user I really want, then logout and login as good user and delete dummy user. If firstboot merely came with an [Advanced...] button on the user creation page which would run the good old system-config-users program, I could use it to create my user with the correct UID (and if I wanted more than one user, I could do that as well). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Whatever is on the F10 Preview DVD. How reproducible: Every time I install. Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: forced to create useless user Expected results: would like to create user with correct UID Additional info: Since distro-envy often seems to get more results than common sense, I'd just point out that OpenSUSE does allow me to create the initial user and control all the user attributes :-).
I notes this has some overlap with bug 212939, but it seems more important to do something like this since logging in as root became impossible (or very convoluted anyway :-).
Yes, I definitely want to rework the firstboot add user module for F11. In particular I want to add something that lets you add the created user to sudoers, etc.
I'm having a similar problem. If I could easily skip the account creation, I would be perfectly happy. I'm happy to do advanced stuff (like creating accounts with specific UIDs) on the command-line. Or even better, just have a button to bypass firstboot completely.
Fixed in version firstboot-1.111-1
Yep, I was happy to discover the "Advanced" button in my F14 alpha firstboot that let me run s-c-u and specify all the details of the initial user. Thanks!
In F14, I am able to create users and group using the Advanced button (s-c-u), but firstboot still thinks no users has been created yet, and does not allow me to continue unless a trick described in bug #543008 is used. This bug is probably related to bug #474007.