On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 15:29 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 12:17:32PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > I'm definitely in favor of the user account changes. The current setup > > > is confusing for non-experienced users, especially because > > > administrator isn't checked by default. This leads to situations where > > > only a root account is created, and if you log in to Workstation in > > > X or (especially) Wayland as root, many things don't work in > > > non-obvious ways. Like, the GNOME user account panel. > > > > I don't think this is possible. If you only create a root password in > > anaconda, this is noticed at first boot, and g-i-s runs in its pre-GDM > > mode and forces you to create a user account before you reach GDM. > > I got a user report recently about this situation -- I'll verify. It's > possible they created a non-admin user account in addition to setting > the root password. However, it seems in this case they could log in as > that non-admin user and unlock with the root password, right? Maybe the > problem is simply insufficient warning when logging in to GNOME as > root. IIRC, gdm just doesn't *let* you log in as root at all. Are you sure this person was running GNOME? You *can* get to KDE with only a root user, I believe. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
