On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 13:58 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote: > Richi Plana wrote: > > How about adding the functionality to create user accounts (local or > > network) at the gdm login screen? > > I think a cool *optional* functionality would be- > > Whenever gdm receives an unknown username, *automatically* create that > account as new, and log them in. > > Perhaps the way to implement your functionality, would be to have the > above, but after login attempt, a 15 second timeout prompt pops up (with > cancel), notifying that it was an unrecognized login, and asking for the > adminstrative password to confirm account creation. And then perhaps > a checkbox to enable/disable continuation of login for that user. Then > you get back to my functionality with an administrative setting that > just disables the popping up of the confirmation/authentication dialog. Well, that certainly sounds like a smart system ... and I'm all for computers trying to be smarter than their users (if they can do it successfully). But why add a timeout? I'm assuming finding out a list of users from the console isn't a security issue (since they're displayed as a list by GDM) so why not make the computer think one of two things has happened: 1) the user mistyped the username or 2) the user wants to create a new user. The system could ask which and ask for the root password or directory administrator's password if it was a request for the creation of users. It's not intuitive, though, so maybe a "Login (existing or create a new one)" at the prompt would be nice. Maybe then we could remove the "Create User" account at firstboot. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
