Quoting [email protected] ([email protected]): > 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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