Re: new user creation module in firstboot

[David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:09 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On 10/3/07, David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com> wrote:
> >
> > This looks pretty smooth, thanks a lot for working on this. My first
> > reaction is that this is not something that should be limited to
> > firstboot; ideally stuff like that should be able to run from the
> > desktop environment when adding / deleting / managing users, right?
> 
> We had a design session on this; the idea was actually that you could
> create new users from the login dialog (GDM).

I agree that's an interesting idea that would replace the need for a
firstboot module (and probably firstboot entirely). However, I think
it's still needed as a program you can launch in the desktop session
along with an icon in System->Administration. If only we had a component
system...

     David