make ~/.face world-readable (low-hanging-fruit) (Was Re: livecd hacking)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 27 20:54:43 UTC 2007


David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) said: 
> 
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:56 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:38 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:10 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > > One thing we probably want on the desktop live cd, compared to mainline
> > > > Fedora, is making sure that the user's home directory are
> > > > world-executable, e.g. like this
> > > 
> > > It's less of a low-hanging fruit, but I would love to also see us give
> > > every new account a random icon by default.  It would be much cooler to
> > > see that than the question-mark silhouette.
> > 
> > random requires useradd hacking... something other than the question
> > mark just requires dropping something in /etc/skel...
> 
> Ideally we'd just ask questions like these (plus preselecting a suitable
> random one) as part of the installation process including using GNOME
> Cheese / ktuberling / etc. style apps available. Other things I'd like
> to see is the ability to select the desktop background / color scheme /
> whatever. It's also a nice place to plug in migration tools to fetch
> this data from another OS / whatever.
> 
> Also, it's preferable to do this at install time rather than firstboot
> time. Because I'm not so sure firstboot makes a lot of sense for a
> desktop/laptop targeted OS (though I'm sure it's great for enterprise
> workstation deployments).

? Surely all the 'create user' bits (which are in firstboot) are where
you'd do this. Unless you want to move those into anaconda itself.

Bill




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