[RULE] Real Endusers installing w/ Slinky

[Jason Bechtel]

I agree with Ingo that for non-networked systems,
it is generally safe to auto-login a general user
at the console.  This simplifies the situation
for people approaching a computer for the first
time.  As long as a password is required to do
any significant damage to the system, it seems
okay.  Afterall, anyone wanting to set up
printing or anything more technically
sophisticated like that would hopefully be able
to handle entering a password.

Jason


---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: Ingo Lantschner <ingo at vum.at>
Sent: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 22:09:57 +0200
Subject: [RULE] Real Endusers installing w/ Slinky

Hi, 
just got the following problemreport from someone
here in Austria
preparing for her journey to Kinshasa.
(Background: There is a second
organisation near Vienna, who does IT-projects in
Congo - they asked us
for technical assistance)

---- snip ----
Last login Jan 4 ......
[linux at localhost linux]$
-bash: linux command not found
---- snap -----

Well what happended: She set the password "linux"
for her user "linux" and
since she had to type it twice when she set it
during setup, she types
it twice during login.

What I want to point out: The ones who develope
such a system and even
"testers" like me, have real problems thinking in
the way a "real"
Linux-Newbies think (and act). 

And: Due to the fact, that these boxes are not
networked, a login with
password for the user, does not make real sense.
 The setup is already
complex enough so it does also not make sense to
prepare the users for
the next step, which will be a networked system.
It is not a good
strategy to explain solutions to people before
they ever had the problem
to that solution.

To make it short: Can we have a simple way to
avoid the following during
Slinky-Setup, if the Network-Packages are not
selected:
* Prompting for creation of a User
* Typing its Fullname
* Seting the password

Instead of this I would recommend to create a
user named "user",
Fullname: "Default User", Password none. And all
of this automatically.

Again: Only if network is not selected and only
for the user not for
root.

Thanks for your attention, Ingo.
---- End Original Message ----



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