gdm Create User

[Casey Dahlin]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 12:42 -0600, Richi Plana wrote:
>   
>> How about adding the functionality to create user accounts (local or
>> network) at the gdm login screen?
>>
>> I recently installed F8T3 on one machine without reformatting the /home
>> partition so my user account's home directory keeps moving from one
>> iteration of Fedora to another, but I thought I wanted to see what a
>> default desktop setup looked like. So here I was at gdm and thinking
>> "Why do I have to log in to an account to create an account at the login
>> screen?" Seems pretty logical to add that functionality there. Seems
>> like it would satisfy a lot of home and enterprise use-cases, as well.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>     
>
> Home?
> Perhaps. Ideally you create all needed accounts at installation anyway.
>
> Enterprise?
> I don't see how, it's not like any user has the root password to create
> their own account. You have to ask an admin which is usually already
> logged in his own system and will just launch a command from there.
>
> Simo.
>
>   

For a long time Fedora offered a "Recovery Console" that was accessible 
from GDM and simply brought up a minimal terminal. What about a similar 
option for a more sophisticated graphical admin tool containing features 
like this one?

--CJD