Joel Rees wrote: > Maybe I need to file a feature request (for my own satisfaction, even > if it gets rejected). > > What I lean towards is providing the installing user > (1) the opportunity to set the root password, > (2) the opportunity to set a separate admin account and password > (member of sudo group on debian), > and (3) the opportunity to set a separate non-admin work account and password.
I know you would like the installer to do exactly what your custom strategy is for your system. But that is difficult. There are many custom strategies. For example I have my own things that I always customize when setting up a new system. Other people have other strategies. It is impossible to be the Univerial Operating System and make everyone happy. At least not all at the same time. If you target one particular strategy to the point of *exclusion* of others then the others are *NOT* happy. The best thing that the debian-installer can do is be a bootstrap tool that gets things going. It can be the lowest common denominator tool that starts the system off. After the system is installed then you as the administrator can customize it for your purposes. That is a good thing. What is even better is that if you desire you can customize the debian-installer to create your strategy at install time. I do this. Works great. However if you are only doing this once or twice it isn't work the effort. I set up a PXE boot and post-install customization scripts. All of my customization goes into those scripts. It is automated. But it needed me to write the scripts to be there. If you are only installing once or twice then it isn't work the effort to set up. Then it is easier just to do what you want manually. In your case install using the debian-installer. Set up a root password. Set up the user. All as guided by the debian-installer. Then after installation log in as root and create your administrator user. Assign them to the sudo group. # adduser admin # addgroup admin sudo And with that you will have your desired strategy all set up and running. Easy! Bob
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