Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Tue Dec 9 21:49:24 UTC 2014




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
> creation
> spoke."
> ..was exactly what  meant (don't forget that I started this
> discussion! :-) )
> 
> 
> 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. 


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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