On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 15:21 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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. This should already be possible https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462161 > > > > - Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > > > > > -- Martin Gracik <mgracik@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
