xguest in the live cd

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Mar 11 19:14:44 UTC 2009


On Wednesday, March 11 2009, Matthias Clasen said:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:40 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 10 2009, Matthias Clasen said:
> > > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 06:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > > It won't be that useful as a live cd as such but since we are 
> > > > recommending the desktop live cd as the primary point of entry for new 
> > > > users at http://get.fedoraproject.org/, it would be quite useful for 
> > > > desktop users once people use the live cd to install them to their hard 
> > > > disk, I think.
> > > 
> > > Fair enough. I'm sure people will bitch about this poking unasked wholes
> > > in their system security. 
> > > 
> > > What do others think ?
> > 
> > I think making xguest more accessible is a Good Thing (tm) and that
> > having it in the live images/installed by default is a part of that.
> > But the other part is perhaps the "how do I make it easy to turn off" --
> > right now, that involves removing the package afaik.  Having it be an
> > easy "turn off the account in system-config-users[1]" would probably
> > make it even more awesome.
> > 
> > That said, let's put it in the beta and see what more people think :-)
> > Worst case is we get some xguest testing with the beta (which isn't bad
> > either)
> 
> Can you add a  +xguest  to fedora-livecd-desktop.ks ? For some reason I
> seem to have lost my git fu there...

Done.  Will make sure with kanarip/f13 that it doesn't need to be on the
branch and if so, will get it merged over also.

Jeremy




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