create-user primitive

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 16 January 2017 at 20:45, Manik Taneja <manik at canonical.com> wrote:

> hi there,
>
> i was trying to verify the functionality of the snapd create-user
> primitive and see this error-
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> is this expected behavior?
>

Yes. You can use --force-managed to create another user regardless.


> why can't i have more than 1 user managing the device? separately, i
> noticed that this primitive has been deprecated from the help menu-
>
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> can someone please help me understand why this is the case? finally, at
> the first boot, device ownership must be established via Ubuntu SSO. given
> that, and the fact that create-user does not allow extra user creation, how
> and when can someone use it?
>

Well snap create-user is mostly there exactly so that console-conf can
invoke it. That's also why it's hidden from snap help!

Cheers,
mwh
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