xguest by default?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 25 08:26:32 UTC 2009
Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> xguest provides kiosk mode/ guest user functionality that is very useful for
>> desktop users. xguest has been available in the repository for a few
>
> How do you figure it's useful? I can only imagine the bug reports -
> "all my settings disappear when I log out!" "my wireless key keeps
> getting forgotten!" (insert any number of other complaints due to lack
> of understanding of what's going on here).
Guest user facility is a standard feature is systems like Vista, OS X or
even Ubuntu recently. I demo'ed this feature recently to some users who
very much liked it.
>
> Also, it requires SELinux to be in enforcing mode in order to do it's
> magic - according to smolt, we're at 54.8% of systems with SELinux
> enforcing (notwithstanding that smolt is obviously not an
> authoritative source of data, simply putting a stake in the ground
> here).
Not only is it not authoritative, it is wrong since it was collecting
incorrect information due to some bug IIRC
>
> Also, such an item would require exposure and testing. Feature freeze
> for Fedora 11 is under a week away.
Feature freeze doesn't determine testing and xguest is not a new feature.
Rahul
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