On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:18:39PM -0500, myglc2 wrote:
> 1) Add a user configuration menu/form?
>
> That should be fairly straightforward. But I wonder if it wouldn't be
easier for
> people to add them after the system is installed and run guix system
> reconfigure ?
I agree user management is downstream of the install. But in practice I
need an "admin" user with sudo/su to manage a headless server. Otherwise
I would have to allow login to root over ssh or use the console.
So in practice all I do at the console is provide root and admin
passwords. If you made it easy to create a single admin user that would
be very handy. The debian install does this.
Yeah and in debian one cannot avoid but add a user. And to me this is annoying
since all my clients are LDAP managed so after I have installed a client, the
first thing I do is to delete the user which I was forced to create.
But I will add a page to add users before the "real thing" is released, but
it will be a strictly optional step.
BTW, I see you followed the doc and set ...
(lsh-service #:port-number 2222)
... for the Headless server. I don't think this is desirable. The user
will want to ssh into their nice new headless GuixSD server and this
non-standard port is sure to shoot novice users in the foot.
Yes, I wonder what the rationale for this port number was?
> Perhaps we could add a page which would allow users to add arbitrary
packages
> to the system profile.
That would be very nice. FWIW, I attach a recent system config to
illustrate some packages that I would find useful.
I'll also add a "Select additional packages for system profile" page, but
again it'll be an optional step.
> This time I tried to set up the HD from scratch. I successfully
deleted
> old partitions and created new partitions. It was not clear how
much I
> needed to know (e.g., do I need to mark a partition bootable?)
>
> Since I'm currently just execing cfdisk, I don't have much control
> over that.
My point is that we probably need to provide very basic guidance as
regards the minimum buttons a user need to push to get the system up.
Maybe this could be in a sidebar on the relevant screens?
I will think about how that could perhaps be done.
just couldn't figure out how to get back to the main thread and complete
the install. Was I missing something? Or this is a bug?
Probably both. If you couldn't figure something out, then it's a bad user
interface. I'll re-think that bit of it.
J'
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