Users and Groups

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sat Dec 8 00:33:53 UTC 2007


Ed Greshko wrote:
> David L. Gehrt wrote:
>
>   
>> While I agree with your sentiments I worry that the postings in response
>> to his  nonsense may be  just feeding what  ever drives him to  post the
>> crap you identify.
>>     
>
> I guess what I don't understand is why nobody, at least I think nobody, (I
> had to read the archives since I filter out some cruft) simply answered the
> question.
>
> "User Manager" is working as designed and intended.  In general, there is no
> interest to view or modify system users and groups.  That is nearly always
> take care of by the system component that has created the user and/or group.
>
> It is unclear why someone would find it necessary to un-check *all* of the
> preferences when clearly the one saying "Hide system users and groups" would
> change the display to the preference of the user.
>
> I think most people won't need a "help" section for such an intuitive GUI.
> However, if someone feels there is a need they should join the
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject.
>
>   
    You can pontificate but there still is no help. It would be a help 
if help was written but Fedora is too poor to write one.

Karl


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