Re: User administration tool

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I decided to use the option 1 (of point 2).
More information to come.
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 18:11, Pupeno wrote:
> Hello Ark Linux developers,
> I think one of the main tools Ark Linux is lacking is the User
> Administration Tool, a tool that will allow to seitch between Mono-user and
> Family mode (does anybody have a better naming for Mono-user ?)
> So, here is a draft of its spec, anybody, including Erikos with whom I
> chatted today, feel free to add anything:
> The tool (that should be a KCM integratable in KControl and Mission
> Control) will state in which mode we are know and show a button to change
> to the other mode, it should contain full explanations. When in Mono-user
> mode, it will be a very simple GUI, in Multi-user mode, it'll have a 'full
> featured' user management tool (we can borrow sources from kuser). 'Full
> featured' as long as it doesn't become too complex, that means: add user,
> remove user and that's it.
> Now, what I need to define is the following issues:
> 1) exactly what is the state of things in mono-user mode (like autologin)
> and what is the state of things in multi-user mode (like no-autologin)
> (feel free to add other things you might consider)
> 2) how we handle users... I see two posible options:
> 	1) in mono-user ignore all the users except arklinux and totally mask the
> user so it never appears and in multi-user ignore the arklinux user and let
> the users create new users and use them, the arklinux user will be there to
> go back.
> 	2) use arklinux as the main user for mono-user and the first user for
> multi-user allowing the user to change the id (nobody wants his/her
> username to be arklinux) and adding other users.
> There are lots of pro and cons in each aproach, and we have to define what
> do we do with the files of multi-users when we're in mono-user and what do
> we do with the files of arklinux when we are in multi-ser (if we choose
> option 1). So, wath do you people think about it ?
> Let's rock and roll.

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