On Thu 25 Mar, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > I disagree with this proposed change. IMO the default group assignments are > > in line with the purpose of the first user account. > > I have three reasons to feel otherwise: > > 1. IIRC, the reason for adding the initial user to groups has been to provide > a good desktop experience. See bugs #352713, #166718. > So worrying about the first account not having hardware access when not > at the desktop seems like scope creep. >
I really appreciated being able to get things working without too much hassle when I was a totally new user, and have often been asked by inexperienced users why simple things do not work as expected on a new installation. I am not involved in setting up more than small networks, and I now demonstrate the differences between users, explain why I set up an initial user account, then often create real users starting from a higher UID with the same UIDs throughout the local network, finally deleting the initial user account. If it is easy to add new users from a list it is also easy to delete the first account when not required. -- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk (was www.overview.demon.co.uk) Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/marcel-1.53-0325082243-0e8h...@riscpc.main
