Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

[Pete Travis]

On Dec 9, 2014 2:49 PM, "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 20:44 +0100, Peter Laursen wrote:
> > "the suggestion was just that *if you do create a
> > user account during install*, it should be an admin by default.
> > basically, change the default state of the checkbox on the user
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> > spoke."
> > ..was exactly what  meant (don't forget that I started this
> > discussion! :-) )
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> > But if there is room in the installer interface I'd suggest too that
> > "Administrator" could change to something like (compromise!
> > ) "Administrator (sudo'er and member of the 'wheel' admin user group)"
> > or similar.
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> I'd rather see the "Help" button link to a page that gives a more
> complete definition of what an "Administrator" can do. Cluttering the
> user creation screen with this is pretty ugly.
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This is feasible.  I'd love the chance to browbeat^wadvise people about
appropriate use of admin powers, too.  Feel free to file a bug on anaconda
for their input and add me or pbokoc as the docs contact, we can make it
happen if they are on board.

--Pete
--Pete
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