On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 09:02 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -----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. Realmd is a good tool, but works only with Windows Ad or FreeIPA. It is useless to configure against a classic directory and/or Kerberos server or NIS or things like that. Anaconda used to have authconfig integration, was it yanked on rewrite ? Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
