Re: new user creation module in firstboot

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

On 10/3/07, Ben Konrath <bkonrath redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 15:43 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:34:04PM -0400, Ben Konrath wrote:
> > > I'm working on a new user creation module for the new and improved
> > > firstboot. I created a little video to give people an idea of the UI
> > > interaction:
> > > http://bagu.org/scratch/createuser.ogv
> >
> > Email address? Where's that going to go? What will it be used for? And isn't
> > my e-mail address username localhost?
>
> The Email address is intended to used to pull in account information
> from mugshot so using username localhost wouldn't really work.
>
> > There should also be an advanced button so that parameters like userid can
> > be selected.
>
> This user creation module is intended to be used by desktop users, not
> systems administrators so having a place to select advanced options like
> userid doesn't really make sense. FWIW, the current user creation module
> doesn't have those options for local users either.
>
> Cheers, Ben

if this is only targeted at desktop users.. what's wrong with firstboot?

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