Call for Bikeshedding: remote auth at install time

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 06/03/2013 09:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> We all know what devel@ does best, so let's fire up the power of
> the bikeshedding machine :)
> 
> We had https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965883 on the
> list of release blocker candidates that we evaluated at the blocker
> review meeting this morning. Attendance at blocker reviews is
> pretty spotty these days (please, people, come out and feel in a
> position of ABSOLUTE POWER), and no-one present felt like they were
> a huge expert on typical remote authentication use cases, so we
> really didn't feel qualified to make a call on this one.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Whether this is a blocker or not comes down to a judgement call,
> because it hinges on whether this is a significant inconvenience
> for a large enough number of users. So we need to know from people
> who use Fedora in remote auth environments whether it's a big
> problem not to be able to set it up at install / firstboot time, or
> whether you'd be okay with creating a local user to get through
> initial-setup and then configuring remote auth from that local
> account.
> 

How did that happen? Last I had heard, Anaconda was supposed to be
farming out to RealmD to do this. We should have no need to create a
local user at all. CCing the RealmD maintainer for comment.
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