[Casper] root account(feature request?)

Miles Leacy miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
Wed Oct 15 08:48:22 PDT 2008


I would not want FEU to mess with root by default.  I consider not enabling
root to be a best practice.
If you have compelling reasons to enable root, you could add duplicates of
the files that go to /Users/username to /private/var/root in your package.



2008/10/15 Eric Winkelhake <eric.winkelhake at mundocomww.com>

>
> I've thought about this for quite some time now and it's not a big deal but
> would anyone else benefit from having the option to fill the root account
> when you fill existing users??  Also, I think that the fix ByHost files
> should fix the root ByHost files, yes?  Regarding the first question, I
> wouldn't be opposed to having it just fill automatically when the FEU option
> is selected, although sometimes I don't want those prefs in the root
> account.  So, maybe an additional option (check box) to fill the root home
> folder.
>
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