[Bio-Linux] Bio-Linux 5.0 pre-release announcement

[Jarrod Hadfield]

Hi Stewart,

Could I be taken off the email list, please.

Thanks,

Jarrod


On 26 Nov 2008, at 13:01, Stewart Houten wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> Good to hear from you.
>
> On Nov 26, 2008, Nathan S. Watson-Haigh <nhaigh at sheffield.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
>> A comment about default user setup.
>>
>> Bio-Linux 5 automatically gives sudo rights to the initial user  
>> entered
>> during installation....this may or may not be desired for several  
>> reasons.
>> Could the installation be changed to setup a manager account  
>> automatically
>> with sudo rights and then have the person doing the install, choose a
>> password for the manager and then setup a normal user account  
>> (without sudo
>> rights)?
>
> This probably could be achieved but for several reasons we decided to
> fit our requirements to the default Ubuntu/ubiquity setup.  Our
> decision was motivated by the fact that the person installing the
> computer is most likely the owner or dedicated administrator of the
> machine and after installing the first thing they will need to do is
> customise the machine, restore backups, add user accounts, setup
> printers, nfs etc.  We thought the default Ubuntu approach served this
> need very well.
>
> Also modifying the installer code (ubiquity) to provide a dialog
> allowing you to set a manager password is not really an option as the
> code is not easy to fathom (it is something we considered for another
> reason) and it would likely be tricky to maintain during future
> updates to the image.  There are other ways around this but we wanted
> to keep things simple where possible.
>
> Unfortunately when you installed you didn't have a copy of our
> Installation Guide in front of you and in this we have tried (in
> brief) to address the account setup process and make a suggestion that
> this admin account be set up with the name manager.  If you would like
> to take a look at this it is now in a temporary location on the web
> here:
>
> http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/bio-linux5/Bio-Linux5_InstallationGuide.pdf
>
> Any comments on this document would also be welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Stewart
>
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