-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/2014 03:36 PM, Elad Alfassa wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Stephen Gallagher > <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > This will probably require coordination with the Anaconda folks, > as their first-boot environment will check whether the user or root > was created during installation and prompt for it there if not. I'm > not certain which will occur first, Anaconda's first-boot or > GNOME's, but that will need to be worked out together. > > > I don't think we should hide the root user creation from there, > only the normal user creation. > I agree; I didn't mean to imply otherwise. > The root user creation is useful for recovery in case everything > goes wrong, and as such I think we should label it as Recovery > (root) Password or something similar, and have a little explanation > text about what it is, so that users won't just write some > gibberish there and dismiss it but understand that it's like a > "master key" for their computer and they should remember it or > write it down in a safe place in case they need it for error > recovery. > That's a good idea. > Alternatively (since root might be a concept too complicated to > explain) we could skip root user creation too and coordinate it > with the Anaconda people so for Workstation this user will be > passwordless and inaccessible by default (users created by gnome's > initial-setup have sudo rights anyway). Can we do that, or is it > something we'd need FESCO / Base WG / Someone else approval for? > I'd advise against this (personally) for most of the reasons above; that you won't have a recovery path such as single-user mode. What I meant was just that hiding the user-creation from Anaconda is more complicated than just suppressing that UX element because it will come up again post-install unless somehow coordinated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlPyV9QACgkQeiVVYja6o6MqJwCgqs/QJerdpvx+Aiin4P3OjTlv HdMAoIIPZP+nFzavCL1xyamh2XSqTKc/ =lJTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
