[Bug 14638] Kuser sets up unappropriate new users parameters

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------- Additional Comments From sebas at kde.nl  2005-11-22 00:50 UTC -------
On Monday 21 November 2005 23:19, bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.ubuntu.com wrote: 
> ------- Additional Comments From adrien_cordonnier at yahoo.fr  2005-11-21 
> 22:19 UTC ------- (In reply to comment #2) 
> 
> > Does this really apply to guidance, or is guidance the fix itself? 
> > (If yes, please change subject to guidance/userconfig) 
> 
> Is guidance/userconfig the new systemsettings user management component? If 
> so, it doesn't correct the bug: there is no simple (or even complex) way to 
> choose groups for a real-life user. (And according to Kubuntu policy there 
> should be only one of Kuser/systemsettings component) 
> 
> > 1) I cannot reproduce the wrong userID (guidance's userconfig reads 
> > /etc/adduser.conf, and correctly uses ids above 1000). Adrien, did 
> > you change something there? 
> 
> Cannot reproduce either. I filled the bug report after a fresh Hoary 
> install but I shifted to Breezy since then. 
 
Ok. Then this bug was a kuser bug, breezy uses guidance instead of kuser, though. 
 
> > 2) The default groups can be changed, but I'm unsure whether this is 
> > wanted: - You might want to add a new user for the purpose of 
> > finer-grained permissions, not necessarily someone who's allowed to log 
> > in. (This is more a question of policy, I'm happy to provide a patch if 
> > someone (Jonathan?) can specify the default groups, though. 
> 
> What is needed is three buttons (or option box): 
> a) new real-life basic user -- with group so that she/he can use the 
> computer (audio, cdrom, etc) b) new sudo user -- it's not always convenient 
> to rely on the disponibility of only one person for a familly computer 
> (same as above plus sudo and other admin rights = first user group 
> selection) 
> c) new user such as the existing button (no group except self) 
 
Could you email your suggestions to simon at simonzone.com, CC:ing sebas at kde.nl. We can consider these changes then (there's some more 
usability work to come, and I've some additional ideas on the group stuff). But bugzilla does not seem to be the right place for this. 
 
This bug, however, can be closed. 
--  
sebas 

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