Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been writing some code, but now I'm unsure about one thing: What > will happen if somebody installs Debian newly on a clean system, > e.g. with a CD, and chooses to install a TeX system at the very first > moment? Does this happen before local users (and hence groups) are > created?
No, according to http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-system-setup users are created (in the user interface) before the base system is installed. That should be safe for us. It still means that probably any application server installation will be detected as a machine used by a single user if the authentication of users won't be done with /etc/passwd. But this question has only an effect if somebody is seeing debconf questions, and a server admin should know how many users are going to use TeX... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
