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Re: [Desktop] What accounts on a machine?



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On Sunday 27 October 2002 6:41 am, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
>
> * Alan Chandler [Sat, Oct 26 2002, 02:36:55PM]:
> > - From a technicians point of view you are exactly correct - but the
> > question I am asking (and if we want to create desktops for the masses we
> > must at least ask the question) does it have to be.  Isn't something like
> > administrator a much more logical name for someone not in the know.
>
> Hell, why are you keen on breaking so many technical details? IMHO it is
> easy: Make the Login managers (kdm, gdm) show a list of users (like KDM
> does not), but not with login names only, but in "Fullname (account)"
> form. So a user sees "My Name (mynick)" or "System Administrator(root)"
> and IMHO should get an idea what the accounts are for, even an idiotic
> one.

I think you are right - thats the way to solve the problem

- -- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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