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silverblue,install-script: Rework user creation

Fabiano Fidêncio requested to merge fidencio/osinfo-db:wip/silverblue_user_password into master

Silverblue, till its "30" release, allowed us to:

  • set passwordless accounts;
  • set root password;

Those things were just mimic'ing Fedora, and done during the "post" phase.

However, since its "31" release, it's been broken as the user was created but no password was set;

In order to solve this, the easiest solution is stop doing such things during the "post" phase, and use the "kickstart" way. The drawback, though, is that we have to require user / admin password for such case and this is not something we can conditionally do depending on the distro's version.

Summing up, as the passwords will be required, let's switch to only using kickstart methods for setting up the user and admin accounts / passwords always.

Mind tho, that for Silverblue 31 and onwards, the root password won't even be used as su doesn't seem to be the way Silverblue wants their users becoming privileged (sudo would be the preferred way).

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio fidencio@redhat.com

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