On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:37:10PM -0500, Chris Lumens wrote: > > I like the idea of not having root, and having only a local user setup with sudo rights > > in anaconda. Then if I really need the root account, I can do it in command line manually. > > In my opinion anaconda+firstboot should make life easier for people who don't know much > > about the system. If you're an advanced user, and really need a root user account, > > you should already have the knowledge how to create it in command line by yourself. > > You shouldn't need a GUI wizard for that. > > True, but I also think we need to strike a balance to make sure things > aren't too much of a pain on the advanced user. I mean, I like to think > of myself as an advanced user as well and I'd prefer things to not be > more difficult for me than they have to. > > It seems like we can strike some balance here. Perhaps we start by > merging the root password and create user screens together and offering > some sort of choice. You can choose to set up a root password, or you > can choose to create a regular user account and put that user into sudo. > Default to the second choice. I'm not sure if we can make that make > sense in the UI though. I think that would add more clutter to the interface. Using a normal user and sudo for root access is the safe way to do things. If advanced users want to use root setting it up isn't much of a burden -- in cases where you are deploying alot of systems you can easily setup a kickstart to do it for you. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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