On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:57 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Don Russell wrote: > [snip] > > In order for a remote system to be in a state that remote access is even > > possible, there must be an OS already running. In order to install the > > first OS, physical access to the box must be required. It has to be > > physically connected etc. At the very least the power has to be turned > > on.. it might then proceed to do a network install... > > > > At that first install time is when a second user id should be created.... > > Non-root users are creating doing firstboot, not during the install. If > you aren't there to go through the firstboot process, you can't create any > users other than via root. > > I don't recall off the top of my head what kickstart lets you do with > respect to user creation. It is conceivable that using kickstart to do a > PXE install will leave a headless machine with no way to access it except > via a root ssh session. Well, kickstart and/or the interactive install could tie you in to various network directories like NIS or something LDAP based to give you non-root users... But, of course, kickstart could add a user in a myriad of ways to the local passwd/shadow/group files during the %post section like: useradd -p encryptedpassword username --Rob
