On 09/02/2019 13:52, Israel wrote: > On 2/8/19 1:10 PM, Paul Sutton wrote: > > >> Hi, All >> >> Not sure if this is useful, but as the About Me App in Debian 9, appears >> to be buggy (or it is on my system(s) anyway. I have started to write a >> python version. >> >> I am a little stuck on how to save the data in a file. >> >> I am also not sure if the original program is meant to change the user >> shell. However as an application having it just save that data to a >> file is probably sufficient for the moment. >> >> https://github.com/zleap/AboutMe >> >> If this is useful for ToriOS then I am happy for it to be included (once >> working). I have issued a release but tagged it as pre-release. >> >> I have added a README.md file for this to give further information. And >> some context as to why I decided to try and write this. >> >> Hope this helps >> >> >> Paul >> > > > > > Hey Paul > > I do think this save actual information, think about the manual adding > of a user from the terminal (adduser rather than useradd) > > It asks for full name, room number, work phone, home phone, and other. > > I think the information is actually stored in the password file, so > you might need to include some sort of pkexec functionality in your > program to reflect this. However it might store it differently. I do > also know that usually a picture of the user is stored as ~/.face > > If you need help with the pkexec policy file let me know, it is an XML > file so it is pretty easy to make >
Thanks for that, It had not really occurred to me that it was linked to the info you put in when adding a user with adduser. (given the fields it makes sense now) Anyway as my version has gone off at a tangent as a result (collects more data e,g e-mail) it can now write to a data file. Not sure if it is still useful generally for uses to store their info though. To do: 1. Fix - writing what is selected in the drop down. 2. Auto retrieve data upon loading. (so the drop down default should be what ever was selected before) I think as it stores locally it is fine Does ToriOS need a tool like this? or do we have one already ? I am getting there. Regards Paul -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev Post to : torios-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
