On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 15:56 +0100, DenverD wrote:
On 12/14/2012 12:42 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
The problem is that a user has done a new 12.1 install and did not create a user at that time. Resulting in no chance of a GUI login. Period.
sorry, but i wonder how to do that?
would it be that during the install, when on slide #8 of this preview http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup/art.osu... the person making the install just clicks "Next" leaving blank user name and password blocks???
is that possible? will the script allow that? (should that be changed??)
It is possible. You don't have to do anything funny for this to happen. Just select not to make a user. Just do not expect to be able to do a GUI login directly.
if it is possible then wouldn't the primary user's name be "" (blank or maybe carriage return??) and password the same ""??
in other words wouldn't there be a /home//Desktop and etc..
No. the step can simple be skipped during install.
and, if that page were untouched but clicked "Next" it would be set to auto log-in as "" and the machine book up user "" using password "" ??
and, root would share the "" password..
finally, if all of that is possible (and what happened) there would be no need to log into the GUI as root, instead just ssh in as root, launch ncurses YaST, nav to the security and users section and change the name and password of the user with UID of 1000, previously named "" to Tom or (whatever)...and give Tom a password longer than "".
On a single computer in a garage (these are going in to vehicles), there may not be a network to ssh from. Better to switch to a virtual terminal on the console and make a user there. Just to clarify: we do not run as root. But we do run in KDE. If you do not make a non-root user during the install, you cannot do this until you somehow make a non-root user. On new systems, we usually like to make users after we install our software (as root as it installs in /opt) as we add things to /etc/skel that we expect users to start with. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org