Disable "root" in installer
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root user is no longer the preferred one for quite some time, since the introduction of admins and roles.
We should no longer allow it to be used.
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Users will have to resort to truenas_admin by default or some other user.
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Bug Clerk January 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Caleb January 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We actually prevent using the root account in the installer and it has been this way since EE (IIRC). Either way, this is done. The other component to this is preventing a "root" account from being created via our API. That will have to happen in this PR: https://github.com/truenas/middleware/pull/15441
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Created September 19, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Updated February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Resolved January 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Its time to disable allowing a root user in the installer, its been essentially deprecated for quite some time.
The preferred solution would be to allow the user to input a custom admin username if at all possible, but its understandable that might be too much work. If thats the case we should always just default to truenas_admin instead.