----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:15:07 AM > Subject: Re: Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop > > > On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 05:51 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > A number of OSes default to having the first created user be the > > "Administrator", including OSX, Windows and, closer to our usage, > > Ubuntu. > > > > I don't think that defaulting to the first user being an admin is a > > problem for people installing multiple machines, as this would be > > something they would look for. I'd much rather force having an admin on > > the system and get rid of the root user as something you can log in as. > > Well, that works if-and-only-if you are dealing with a predominately > single-user machine. In the case where you are managing users in a > FreeIPA or Active Directory domain, in many cases you won't really have > a "first user" on the system. I don't think it is a risky proposition to assume that for the vast majority when people install the Fedora Workstation using the GUI installer they are installing a single-user machine for personal use. I know there are other users too of course, but for instance I doubt that someone doing a corporate Fedora install on a large number of machines install them one by one using the GUI installer. So I think we shouldn't optimize the options in the GUI installer for such scenarios. Christian > Now, an argument can be made for requiring that the domain policy is set > up to have appropriate admin privileges for certain users in the domain, > but that doesn't help if there's a bug in network connectivity or SSSD > that prevents that admin from being able to log in to fix things. > > So I think a strong need remains for having a real root account on > systems that are domain-enabled. > > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
