Hi,
xguest provides kiosk mode/ guest user functionality that is very useful for desktop users. xguest has been available in the repository for a few releases but has little exposure since it is not included by default. Can we consider including it by default in the live cd and perhaps the DVD image as well? It currently works only with GDM.
Rahul
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
xguest provides kiosk mode/ guest user functionality that is very useful for desktop users. xguest has been available in the repository for a few
How do you figure it's useful? I can only imagine the bug reports - "all my settings disappear when I log out!" "my wireless key keeps getting forgotten!" (insert any number of other complaints due to lack of understanding of what's going on here).
Also, it requires SELinux to be in enforcing mode in order to do it's magic - according to smolt, we're at 54.8% of systems with SELinux enforcing (notwithstanding that smolt is obviously not an authoritative source of data, simply putting a stake in the ground here).
Also, such an item would require exposure and testing. Feature freeze for Fedora 11 is under a week away.
While it's useful to me for shows and whatnot when I want to leave my computer for anyone to play around with, I fail to see the general use case for such a thing.
Jon Stanley wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
xguest provides kiosk mode/ guest user functionality that is very useful for desktop users. xguest has been available in the repository for a few
How do you figure it's useful? I can only imagine the bug reports - "all my settings disappear when I log out!" "my wireless key keeps getting forgotten!" (insert any number of other complaints due to lack of understanding of what's going on here).
Guest user facility is a standard feature is systems like Vista, OS X or even Ubuntu recently. I demo'ed this feature recently to some users who very much liked it.
Also, it requires SELinux to be in enforcing mode in order to do it's magic - according to smolt, we're at 54.8% of systems with SELinux enforcing (notwithstanding that smolt is obviously not an authoritative source of data, simply putting a stake in the ground here).
Not only is it not authoritative, it is wrong since it was collecting incorrect information due to some bug IIRC
Also, such an item would require exposure and testing. Feature freeze for Fedora 11 is under a week away.
Feature freeze doesn't determine testing and xguest is not a new feature.
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@fedoraproject.org) said:
xguest provides kiosk mode/ guest user functionality that is very useful for desktop users. xguest has been available in the repository for a few releases but has little exposure since it is not included by default. Can we consider including it by default in the live cd and perhaps the DVD image as well? It currently works only with GDM.
My understanding of xguest is that it affects non-xguest users due to its machinations of /tmp.
Bill
Bill Nottingham wrote:
Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@fedoraproject.org) said:
xguest provides kiosk mode/ guest user functionality that is very useful for desktop users. xguest has been available in the repository for a few releases but has little exposure since it is not included by default. Can we consider including it by default in the live cd and perhaps the DVD image as well? It currently works only with GDM.
My understanding of xguest is that it affects non-xguest users due to its machinations of /tmp.
CC'ing Dan Walsh.
Rahul
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