Call for Bikeshedding: remote auth at install time

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 21:53 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 18:07 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > As things stand, in Fedora 19, it's basically impossible to configure
> > remote authentication from the install/firstboot process. If you want to
> > use remote auth, you'd have to create a local user first and then do it
> > using whatever tools are available. anaconda / initial-setup has a
> > button for "Use network login..." on its 'user creation' spoke which
> > ought to be where you configure remote auth, but right now it does
> > precisely nothing at all.
> 
> We've fixed the remote auth support in gnome-initial-setup in
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-9570/gnome-initial-setup-0.11-1.fc19
> so it is not entirely impossible anymore. 

Works only for a very limited set of cases, and afaik it does not
configure the whole system.

Simo.

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