Accounts dialog - help

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:48:55PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

We might want to refer to this in notes clearly as a "tech preview" so
user expectations are set properly.  Any objections to me adding that
information to the Release Notes?

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