[debian-edu-commits] [Git][debian-edu/debian-edu-config][personal/sunweaver/first-user-fullname-with-umlauts] 3 commits: debian/control: Add to D: (debian-edu-config): procps. (Closes: #1136493).

[Mike Gabriel (@sunweaver)]

Mike Gabriel pushed to branch personal/sunweaver/first-user-fullname-with-umlauts at Debian Edu / debian-edu-config


Commits:
9710a70a by Mike Gabriel at 2026-08-19T23:25:59+02:00
debian/control: Add to D: (debian-edu-config): procps. (Closes: #1136493).

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760801e3 by Wolfgang Schweer at 2026-08-19T23:42:53+02:00
share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Cleanup pre-pkgsel from cruft. (Closes: #1055648).

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63575146 by Mike Gabriel at 2026-08-20T18:10:19+02:00
ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based.

This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved
debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db.

(Closes: #939717).

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3 changed files:

- debian/control
- ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
- share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel


Changes:

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debian/control
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@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ng-utils,
          openssl,
          patch,
+         procps,
          python3,
          python3-notify2,
          ssl-cert,


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ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
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@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
+# Assure that interactions with debconf database are UTF-8 interactions.
+export LANG=C.UTF-8
+
 # This script is run during installation of the main server inside Debian Installer.
 # Don't ever use it manually! You will definitely ruin your main server!
 
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ fi
 ################# password available now ##################
 
 lookup_mac_addrs() {
-    PATH=/sbin:$PATH LANG=C ifconfig 2>/dev/null | grep -i hwaddr | awk '{print $5}' | sort -u
+    PATH=/sbin:$PATH ifconfig 2>/dev/null | grep -i hwaddr | awk '{print $5}' | sort -u
 }
 
 slapd_stop() {


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share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel
=====================================
@@ -266,37 +266,6 @@ EOF
     fi
 }
 
-create_initial_localadmin_user() {
-    LOCAL_USER_ID="localadmin"
-    LOCAL_USER_GECOS="Local Administrator"
-    LOCAL_USER_UIDNUMBER="1000"
-    LOCAL_USER_PRIMGIDNUMBER="1000"
-
-    LOCAL_USER_INGROUPS="$LOCAL_USER_INGROUPS adm sudo"
-
-    if db_get passwd/root-password-crypted && [ "$RET" ] ; then
-	log "No clear text root password, unable to use it for creating the initial local user"
-    else
-	# retrieve root password
-	db_get passwd/root-password
-	LOCAL_USER_PASSWD=$RET
-	# create initial local user
-	in-target /usr/sbin/addgroup --gid $LOCAL_USER_PRIMGIDNUMBER $LOCAL_USER_ID 1>&2 || true
-	in-target /usr/sbin/adduser --gid $LOCAL_USER_PRIMGIDNUMBER \
-		--firstuid $LOCAL_USER_UIDNUMBER \
-		--home /home/$LOCAL_USER_ID \
-		--shell /bin/bash \
-		--disabled-login \
-		--gecos "$LOCAL_USER_GECOS" $LOCAL_USER_ID 1>&2 || true
-	# add initial local user to some standard system groups
-	for group in ${LOCAL_USER_INGROUPS}; do
-		in-target /usr/sbin/adduser $LOCAL_USER_ID $group 1>&2 || true
-	done
-	# set password (batch mode)
-	in-target /bin/sh -c "echo ${LOCAL_USER_ID}:${LOCAL_USER_PASSWD} | /usr/sbin/chpasswd" 1>&2 || true
-    fi
-}
-
 # Work around grub bug #712907 (see also bug #763580) by preseeding
 # grub-installer/choose_device to the disk used by /target/boot
 # This fix it for the most common case.
@@ -348,7 +317,6 @@ for p in $(echo $PROFILE | tr , " ") ; do
     case $p in
 	# Only do this for the networked tasks, not for standalone
 	Main-Server|Workstation|Roaming-Workstation|LTSP-Server|Minimal)
-	    #create_initial_localadmin_user
 	    in-target /usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/preseed-ldap-kerberos
 	    in-target /usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/preseed-sitesummary
 



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