[494] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Sep 16 16:35:11 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:34:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, William Cattey wrote:
> Although I have used Ubuntu before, I don't "think in ubuntu", I think in Red
> Hat so installing Athena 10 has tripped me up in a couple ways.
>
> 1. Local account same as Athena account use case.
>
> I always create the first account to have the same name as my Athena account.
> This means that I have to follow the special instructions to delete and
> re-create
> my account.
>
> By the way, step #4 does not work under VMware on a Red Hat system, because
> ctrl-alt-f1 never gets to VMware. The X server grabs it. (I couldn't figure
> out how to deal with that, so I just ssh'd in.)
>
> Step #7 did not work for me either. useradd wdc admin complained and gave me
> a usage message.
Was there a local account for wdc when you ran this?
> I'm not sure what to suggest here. Perhaps, an initial instruction, "If you
> are installing fresh, and installing workstation, AVOID creating the initial
> account with the same name as your athena account, or see FAQ item below."
>
> Ultimately the procedure did not work for me and needs to be re-checked.
Would recommending creating the first user with username root behave as
desired with the Ubuntu installer?
-Tim Abbott
