-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2013 09:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > We all know what devel@ does best, so let's fire up the power of > the bikeshedding machine :) > > We had https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965883 on the > list of release blocker candidates that we evaluated at the blocker > review meeting this morning. Attendance at blocker reviews is > pretty spotty these days (please, people, come out and feel in a > position of ABSOLUTE POWER), and no-one present felt like they were > a huge expert on typical remote authentication use cases, so we > really didn't feel qualified to make a call on this one. > > As things stand, in Fedora 19, it's basically impossible to > configure remote authentication from the install/firstboot process. > If you want to use remote auth, you'd have to create a local user > first and then do it using whatever tools are available. anaconda / > initial-setup has a button for "Use network login..." on its 'user > creation' spoke which ought to be where you configure remote auth, > but right now it does precisely nothing at all. > > Whether this is a blocker or not comes down to a judgement call, > because it hinges on whether this is a significant inconvenience > for a large enough number of users. So we need to know from people > who use Fedora in remote auth environments whether it's a big > problem not to be able to set it up at install / firstboot time, or > whether you'd be okay with creating a local user to get through > initial-setup and then configuring remote auth from that local > account. > How did that happen? Last I had heard, Anaconda was supposed to be farming out to RealmD to do this. We should have no need to create a local user at all. CCing the RealmD maintainer for comment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGt5XoACgkQeiVVYja6o6O2lQCgqhHIFLXRXbWI0FIZBhsfy5U0 aIoAoIXpWiim1H8bjDnSX9LEzOlTyZrT =pV7x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
