Re: Job: simplified creation of Debian Jr. accounts

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:00 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:21:44AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > I'm not sure now that what I really want is a jr-specific tool for
> > setting up user accounts.  I'd rather see the intelligence be *in the
> > Debian system* itself, and not in the per-user configs in each child's
> > home dir.  See my post in the "per user config in debian-jr packages"
> > today for a few ideas on this.
> 
> do you mean you'd rather use some sort of user/group config to handle
> this? I read the other thread and frankly don't understand it really,
> but will read more and see if I can tease it out. 

Please take my first mail in "the other thread" as a reference to this.

IMHO it is an advantage of having several groups (which can be made with
ages as well, e.g. child_5-6, child_10-12, ...), that way a config
skeleton could be build which is then applied to the members of that
group during login; that way only the group of the user has to be change
if role (age) changes.

> [...]
> I see setting up a script that tweaks all the configs for a
> user to fit a particular age group. Later a nice front-end could be
> tacked on to the thing to make click-scroll mom happy.  

That script should reside in the group-skeleton and all what mom then
has to do is changing the group (probably using a nice interface).

Regards
	-- hgb
>

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