On 10/5/07, Ben Konrath <bkonrath@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 19:44 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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...
If the account creation was only in gdm, how would a user know that they
need to create an account before they login? - would this be an obvious
step?