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Does oem-config create a user not in sudo group?

rated 0 times [ 4] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 644 / 3 Years ago, thu, may 13, 2021, 12:59:01

My friend just bought a netbook with Xubuntu preinstalled and the user was created right in store without giving her a root password. Neither was it an admin user. Was it oem-config's fault or store stаff's?

Tip:
To solve this boot into recovery mode, choose root and execute

mount -o remount,rw /

passwd root

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Sometimes. Typically it will create one of these, but not both:

a traditional root user

a non-root user that has sudo permissions

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The oem-config command is a symbolic link to ubiquity, Ubuntu's standard installer. Ubiquity runs the script user-setup-ask-oem to determine how user accounts should be configured, and then the script user-setup-apply to actually create them.

The configuration script begins by asking whether a root user should be created:

If you answer yes, you have the option to also create a non-root user.

If you answer no, you are forced to create a non-root user.

Later on, the account creation script checks to see if you have decided to create a root user:

If you have, a root user is created with traditional, implicit administrative privileges. If you have also opted to create a non-root user, that user is created without sudo permissions.

If you've decided not to create a root user, the non-root user is created with sudo permissions.

This behavior can be complicated by preeseed configurations.