Hi, On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 15:34 -0400, Ben Konrath wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a new user creation module for the new and improved > firstboot. I created a little video to give people an idea of the UI > interaction: > > http://bagu.org/scratch/createuser.ogv This looks pretty smooth, thanks a lot for working on this. My first reaction is that this is not something that should be limited to firstboot; ideally stuff like that should be able to run from the desktop environment when adding / deleting / managing users, right? If we want that we probably need to look at existing functionality in the desktop.. that includes system-config-users (Fedora specific) and the GNOME About Me dialog and how this would fit in. I'd probably say that we want to replace both. And in the same breath I would approach the GNOME community to get this done upstream so all distros can rally around it (share development and maintenance efforts). What is your take on that? Also, if we want this in the desktop environment (and I think we do) it needs to be written in a way that separates the mechanism (would run privileged, e.g. uid 0 however locked down by SELinux or whatever) from the user interface (would run unprivileged user). I'd probably suggest to use PolicyKit [1] (for flexible fine grained lock down) and D-Bus (for activating the mechanism) for that, both of these (especially PK) are kinda written for this kind of thing [2]. Finally, it would be good to have this feature as a "Component" so it's easy to embed into other applications; e.g. if I want to write a OS installer app, then I can easily embed this component. Same, FWIW, goes for the work we're doing on the clock applet and in the future any system configuration bits. I think firstboot has /some/ notion of plug-in architecture but actually haven't reviewed it since I'm not sure it's appropriate in an environment where the UI should run unprivileged. But it just might work. David [1] : http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/ [2] : See e.g. http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=93 and http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=94 for some background -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
