Call for Bikeshedding: remote auth at install time

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Jun 4 01:53:03 UTC 2013


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. 



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