Bug 383425

Summary:	installation: unable to change the home directry for the default user
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Petr Mladek <pmladek>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	coolo, kendy
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	y2log

Description Petr Mladek 2008-04-24 16:11:46 UTC

I usually create a test user during the installation. I have to set the home directory to "/test" instead of "/home/test" because the "/home" directory is mounted from the company home server.

I tried to create this user during the first installation phase but I was unable to change the home directory. The expert setting allowed to change only few things like the authentication method.

Note that it is dangerous to change the path later because the home directory could include files with the hardcoded full path...

Comment 1 Martin Mrazik 2008-04-25 09:33:28 UTC

Please, provide yast2 logs.

Comment 2 Petr Mladek 2008-04-25 12:23:50 UTC

Created attachment 210485 [details]
y2log

Well, I think that it not needed in this case. The bug is about a missing functionality. It is not visible from the log ;-)

Comment 4 Jiří Suchomel 2008-04-28 05:40:55 UTC

It is intentional. The feature 302980 is about having simplified user configuration in the first stage of installation, so changing the home directory location is not included.

May have sense in some future iteration.

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2008-04-28 07:40:28 UTC

You can skip the simple creation at first and get the complex setup after reboot.

Comment 6 Jiří Suchomel 2008-04-28 08:43:24 UTC

Well, not really. This works for root password: when it is not entered in the 1st stage, dialog appears in the 2nd stage. If user is not create in first stage, no other chance will be later in the installation, only if you'd not check "Use Automatic Installation".

Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2008-04-28 09:21:19 UTC

ok, didn't know that. The last time I tested this didn't have the AC feature

Comment 8 Petr Mladek 2008-04-28 09:28:52 UTC

I see the reason with the simply user configuration. I have reported this mainly because this was one more setting that could not be changed later easily, so I was not able to create the user at that stage.

I think that my setup is not typical. I am fine with creating the test user after the installation finishes. We might wait if normal users complain about this ;-)

Comment 9 Jiří Suchomel 2008-05-19 11:37:37 UTC

*** Bug 391950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***