A new user management tool

Thomas Woerner twoerner at redhat.com
Mon May 26 17:52:40 UTC 2008


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> We (Jon McCann and myself, with some input from others) have been
> working on a design for a new user management tool, with the goal of
> coming up with something better than the current trias of
> system-config-users, gnome-about-me and gdmsetup. 
> 
> The design is not finalized, you can see the current state of affairs
> here: http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/user-account3.pdf.bz2
> (I really wanted to put this on the wiki, but all I could only get proxy
> errors when trying to do so).
> 
> Comments are welcome. Please note the section on target audience and use
> cases.
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 

Please add fields to set and change user and group IDs - they are 
important especially in an enterprise environment.

Am I right, that the "Login options" are not user specific? (No user is 
selected.) So please separate it from the users list and move it below 
the "Add"- and "Remove"-user buttons. Then it is more clear that you can 
not add and remove "Login options", but something in the list. BTW: I 
think it would be nice to give the list a description.

If you do not like the word "login", then you could use these two: "User 
Name" and "Full Name".

Thomas




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