Re: [PROPOSAL] 'Change Password GUI'

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos_garnacho yahoo es>]

--- Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st> escribió:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:28:23AM -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > 2005/5/17, Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>:
> > > And as
> > > Jeff suggested, we shouldn't have too many configuration tools (some
> > > existing ones probably should be combined, too).
> > > 
> > > Perhaps some improvements could be made to the Users and Groups tool
> > > instead.
> > > *   Let anyone open it, requiring an admin password only when you want
> > >      to modify someone's account and you don't currently have permission.
> > > *   Make the list of users much narrower (perhaps only one column), so
> > >      that properties -- including the password field -- can be visible
> > >      alongside it as soon as you select a user in the list, rather than
> > >      appearing in a separate window only when you click a "Properties"
> > >      button.
> > > *   Always place the account of the current user at the top of the
> > >      list, and pre-select it.
> > > 
> > > That way, when you opened Users and Groups, the fields for changing your
> > > own password would be immediately visible.
> > 
> > Amen. Seriously, if we have g-s-t, why not just "fix" it to allow a
> > user modify its own password?
> 
> I think this is stupid, this interface is an *admin* interface, you
> can't expect users to go in to some admin tool, find there own user,
> open it, change their password, then realise they opened the wrong user
> and they need some admin password!

please note that your problem is more an *interface* issue than a concept issue,
there's a quite big codebase there (system-tools-backends), which works for a 
large number of distros, and not only for users stuff, it really could be worth to
extend this code to match other use cases instead of reinventing the wheel yet again
because of an interface issue

Regarding the interface, as a silly example, you can use network-admin (also 
from g-s-t) for configuring a single network interface with --configure=eth0, this 
already allows integration with gnome-nettool and gnome-netstatus, so I bet that 
the same can be done for users-admin

         Regards

> 
> It should be something very easy, such as either gnome-passwd or
> gnome-about-me.
> 
> Personally I think gnome-about-me is good, and while I don't want to
> disregard this guys code, introducing one thing then changing it in the
> next version would be bad(tm).
> 
> Perhaps merging your code would be good, however keep in mind GNOME can
> be used on systems with no PAM!
> 
> Cheers,
> Trent
> 
> > Not that I'm trying to disregard shakti's work, but it would be nice
> > avoiding duplication of code and features. The only problem that I see
> > is that only ubuntu ships g-s-t as the default system configuration
> > GUI.
> > 
> > Cheers 
> > 
> > Lucas
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> Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>
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