On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 14:48, Chris Lumens <clumens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> - version #1 is where you can simply use 'root' as your username and >> it'll set a root password instead of create a first user. One >> potentially weird/awkward thing here is that I don't think it's so nice >> to set a real person's name on a root account (is it even possible?) So >> I think the right thing to do in the case of setting the username = root >> is to blank out the 'Full Name' field and grey it out as well when >> 'root' is typed in the field. > > Setting the name is just adding information into the line in the > /etc/passwd file, so I don't see why you couldn't also do it for root. > I just don't think it's too commonly done. > >> In both versions, you get extra screens by 'opting-in' to them via >> checkboxes (similar to how the partitioning screen works today.) > > On both, we're setting up the non-root user for sudo access, yeah? We > should probably mention that we're doing that, though you wouldn't want > to use the word "sudo". Say something about how this user will be > authorized to perform system tasks, blah blah blah. > > I need to spend some time thinking about these screens in the context of > kickstart installs to make sure that whatever we allow today is still > allowed after we make this change. What I have been doing for my systems lately and would love as a firstboot or similar is that I add the first user to desktop_admin_r and then make sudo use that group as root access with password. This allows for both "I need a password to do things" to key off the same group. At one place we worked we just had some sort of wording like: If you will need administrative access for this system click here: [] and that did the sudo thing for that user. > - Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
