Enterprise install

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:52:02PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> 1. Is it possible to install Ubuntu with the standard Debian setup of a
> root user?    I know that the default is to have a standard local user
> who belongs to various groups and can use sudo.  We don't want that.  We
> will be pulling user and group information from LDAP, and don't want any
> local users other than root.

Yes. Install in expert mode and give a root password, and you'll get
this behaviour.

> 2. Is it possible to seed the Ubuntu install in the same way as Debian?
>  We would like to automate large parts of it, with regard to things like
> network configuration, installed packages etc.

Yes. See:

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/ch04s06.html
    (Breezy)

  http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/install/i386/ch04s06.html
    (Dapper)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]