new user creation module in firstboot

Gian Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Thu Oct 4 14:07:38 UTC 2007


David Zeuthen escribió:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:09 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>   
>> On 10/3/07, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> This looks pretty smooth, thanks a lot for working on this. My first
>>> reaction is that this is not something that should be limited to
>>> firstboot; ideally stuff like that should be able to run from the
>>> desktop environment when adding / deleting / managing users, right?
>>>       
>> We had a design session on this; the idea was actually that you could
>> create new users from the login dialog (GDM).
>>     

That would actually be a very cool idea, in my opinion.

>
> I agree that's an interesting idea that would replace the need for a
> firstboot module (and probably firstboot entirely). However, I think
> it's still needed as a program you can launch in the desktop session
> along with an icon in System->Administration. If only we had a component
> system...
>
>      David
>   
I thought that's why we had system-config-users for? Or am I missing 
something here?




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