Users and Groups

[Vladimir Kosovac]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 15:27 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>  
>>> I got interested in writing some documentation for this Application
>>> since there appears to not be any. Who is in charge of this task?
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
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>>>     Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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>>
>> I think that goes in the admin guide but I'm not to sure. I'm sorta
>> confusing the issue in myself of whats desktop use and whats admin use.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>   
>    Hi Marc, if I have a choice I think this should be part of Desktop. I
> have been looking at the various Help tools and dislike those that go to
> a web page. I like the way Gedit calls it's help from Desktop and would
> like to see Users and Groups called the same way.

Karl, I'm afraid this would not be possible. This is a separate
application [`system-config-users`].

''Users and Groups'' is a GUI wrapper for the `system-config-users` and
is placed in the System-->Administration menu for a reason - it handles
"system administration" type task and requires root privileges.

It is covered here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/UserAccounts

DUG guidelines have been posted to the list not so long ago by John
Babich, DUG Lead Writer. Here is the relevant excerpt:

########################################################################
As far as the boundary between the DUG and the Administration Guide
(AG), I agree with Paul that the GUI/non-GUI distinction has very
little relevance. We should always point to the GUI apps first, except
in those rare cases where GUI apps don't exist or don't provide the
required functionality.

I think the main distinction is the target audience. The DUG's
audience is the first-time or less-experienced user who wants to
perform common tasks like web-browsing, creating simple spreadsheets
and text documents. The AG's audience is the more-experienced person
who wants to manage a group of users with various access levels, or
set up and administer servers such as HTTP/FTP, IMAP/POP3,
authentication, proxy, DHCP, etc.
########################################################################

John, Paul, Karsten and the rest of doc writers,

I still maintain that the basic parts of a User Manager (Creating users
and groups) have their place in a DUG, though. Users new to Fedora may
also have a need to quickly create multiple accounts on the machine
without having to read the administration guide. Is this still for
discussion or the whole thing will be handled by the admin guide alone?

Cheers, Vladimir

> 
> Karl
> 
> 

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