Accounts dialog - help

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Mar 25 13:48:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 18:47 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 03/25/2010 06:45 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > Currently it gives you a regular account, without any extra policykit
> > privileges. The 'user' and 'admin' account types get added to the
> > desktop_user_r/desktop_admin_r groups, which are granted extra policykit
> > privileges.
> >   
> 
> So the supervised user is currently no different from a regular user? 

It is, it's not in any PolicyKit groups.

> Why not disable that option till we get that functionality in?

The user-accounts dialogue isn't installed by default, and you'll see
more bits that aren't implemented yet, such as the GDM integration.

It's a work-in-progress, I don't see any point in removing functionality
that we know isn't finished. Patches welcome.



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