Re: [RULE] Real Endusers installing w/ Slinky

[Justin Bowen]

Ingo - I saw your post to the RULE list.  While i'm not a developer, nor do
I have a solution to the problem, I'm interested in this group who is doing
IT work in Congo.  I'd love to get some more information about this and how
to get involved.  If you could send me a URL and an email I'd greatly
appreciate it.

Justin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ingo Lantschner" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 4:09 PM
Subject: [RULE] Real Endusers installing w/ Slinky


>
> Hi,
> just got the following problemreport from someone here in Austria
> preparing for her journey to Kinshasa. (Background: There is a second
> organisation near Vienna, who does IT-projects in Congo - they asked us
> for technical assistance)
>
> ---- snip ----
> Last login Jan 4 ......
> address@hidden linux]$
> -bash: linux command not found
> ---- snap -----
>
> Well what happended: She set the password "linux" for her user "linux" and
> since she had to type it twice when she set it during setup, she types
> it twice during login.
>
> What I want to point out: The ones who develope such a system and even
> "testers" like me, have real problems thinking in the way a "real"
> Linux-Newbies think (and act).
>
> And: Due to the fact, that these boxes are not networked, a login with
> password for the user, does not make real sense.  The setup is already
> complex enough so it does also not make sense to prepare the users for
> the next step, which will be a networked system. It is not a good
> strategy to explain solutions to people before they ever had the problem
> to that solution.
>
> To make it short: Can we have a simple way to avoid the following during
> Slinky-Setup, if the Network-Packages are not selected:
> * Prompting for creation of a User
> * Typing its Fullname
> * Seting the password
>
> Instead of this I would recommend to create a user named "user",
> Fullname: "Default User", Password none. And all of this automatically.
>
> Again: Only if network is not selected and only for the user not for
> root.
>
> Thanks for your attention, Ingo.
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