kickstart vs. /etc/login.defs

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Moray Henderson wrote:

>> From: Michael Hennebry [mailto:hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu]
>> Sent: 26 January 2012 14:13
>>
>>> From
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/sect-Releas
> e_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html#id3021598
>> "If you need to install a new system from scratch, while starting user
>> accounts from 500 (to connect the system to a network with
>> globally-defined UIDs), install using a kickstart script that places
>> /etc/login.defs on the file system before package installation starts."

Actually, to someone with a clue, it's fairly precise.
Alas, that wasn't me.  I'm not in the target audience.
A portion of the pre-filesystem gets
copied to the post-filesystem.

'Tisn't clear whether one needs to specify a complete /etc/login.defs .

What I eventually did was to change my UID on F14.

> Any Fedora developers care to comment here?

> Although documentation is a major source of frustration in the Open Source
> world, the other guys aren't really any better.  I just got a great pop-up
> on Win 7 today: "A program running on this computer is trying to display a
> message." It gave 2 options: "View the message" and "Ask me later".  I mean:
> WHAT??

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