# Should installing ignition under domain account be avoided?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-installing-ignition-under-domain-account-be-avoided/70980>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [March 13, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-installing-ignition-under-domain-account-be-avoided/70980 "2023-03-13T18:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-installing-ignition-under-domain-account-be-avoided/70980/8 "2023-03-13T22:26:56Z")

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I believe Phil is travelling at the minute, so here's a search that came back with this post:

> [@Installing Ignition using apt-get](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/installing-ignition-using-apt-get/4390/14):
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> I’ve been installing Ubuntu server via kickstart with a custom follow-up script. I’ve stripped some items for posting, but here’s the kickstart.cfg:[code]lang en\_US langsupport en\_US keyboard us mouse timezone UTC rootpw --disabled #Initial user generate crypted password with python: import crypt print(crypt.crypt(“My Password”, “$6$My Salt”)) user ignition --fullname “Ignition SCADA Server” --iscrypted --password xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx reboot text install cdrom #System boo…

Furthermore, I believe Phil uses a flavor that can offer commercial support for that particular distro.

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