From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 09:05:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170107080544.GA15438@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86vatrhatc.fsf@gmail.com>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-07 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-04 7:59 Graphical Installer - Call for Testing John Darrington
2017-01-04 13:18 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-01-04 18:44 ` John Darrington
2017-01-04 15:54 ` dian_cecht
2017-01-04 16:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-04 18:52 ` John Darrington
2017-01-06 3:23 ` Thompson, David
2017-01-07 16:02 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-01-06 20:53 ` myglc2
2017-01-06 21:50 ` John Darrington
2017-01-07 2:18 ` myglc2
2017-01-07 4:55 ` myglc2
2017-01-07 20:35 ` Alex Kost
2017-01-07 8:05 ` John Darrington [this message]
2017-01-08 18:47 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2017-01-08 19:28 ` John Darrington
2017-01-08 22:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-09 12:31 ` John Darrington
2017-01-10 8:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-10 11:57 ` John Darrington
2017-01-13 5:40 ` Chris Marusich
2017-01-13 6:35 ` John Darrington
2017-01-13 7:03 ` Chris Marusich
2017-01-14 13:24 ` David Craven
2017-01-22 14:41 ` John Darrington
2017-01-15 4:06 ` Chris Marusich
2017-01-15 6:55 ` John Darrington
2017-01-15 9:20 ` Chris Marusich
2017-01-15 11:56 ` John Darrington
2017-01-16 9:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-16 12:35 ` John Darrington
2017-01-16 17:18 ` John Darrington
2017-01-18 9:36 ` Chris Marusich
2017-07-05 17:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-07 4:48 ` Chris Marusich
2017-07-07 6:13 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-07 11:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-12 11:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-12 17:31 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-17 13:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
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