Thanks for the tip Christian. preseeding is pretty awesome, and I usually
use it, but sometimes you have to do a one-off.
I just realized that I was using the testing installer, not stable. I'm
going to rerun the install, and i suspect the step will be optional in
stable.
> Quoting pete...@bofanez.org (pete...@bofanez.org):
>> So, I've been a debian user for over a decade, and even worked as a
>> debian
>> admin several times (although I'm more often employed as a RHEL admin).
>> I
>> recently discovered that the current debian installer forces the
>> creation
>> of a local user. This is a nice idea, but is not really appropriate for
>> all installations. This step needs to be optional. I'm installing in an
>> LDAP environment, where we use network authentication for everything. We
>> run a local root account for running fsck, fixing boot and ldap
>> problems,
>> and everything else is LDAP. We now have to remove the forced local
>> account post-install. It's just an annoyance, but this step really
>> should
>> be optional.
>>
>
> How about using D-I in expert mode or using a preseeded install with
> "passwd/make-user=no"? This will do *exactly* what you want.
>
> What you describe is the default behaviour, that's all.
>
> The possibility of skipping the normal user creation step is
> there.for over a decade. It was even there when the user-setup
> component was a udeb built from the shadow package, so before 2005...:-)
>
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