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430063: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430063
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gdm
Version: 2.18.2-1
Severity: wishlist
The login screen seems like a natural point for a user to think about user
accounts, or for someone to realize they need an account and ask an
administrator for help. gdm could optionally have an "Add User" button, which
would prompt for all the necessary information to add a user, then request the
root password, and invoke adduser. The screen requesting the root password
should display a summary of all the information about the user to add.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.103 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii gksu 2.0.0-4 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.18.2-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal 2.18.1-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.32-1.1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.8-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.73-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.1-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.12-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-3 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpam-modules 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.79-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.16.1-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii librsvg2-common 2.16.1-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-13 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.29.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-manager 1:2.18.5-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-e 7.9-2 RXVT-like terminal emulator with U
ii xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2 miscellaneous X clients
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator 226-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii gdm-themes 0.5.1 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii whiptail 0.52.2-10 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii zenity 2.18.2-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
I'm closing this bug since the corresponding upstream issue was closed
a long time ago. The Debian GNOME team doesn't have the extra capacity
to implement features like this directly in Debian.
The original issue was opened a long time ago before GNOME had a
unified Settings app to easily allow adding additional users.
If a system does not have any users, gnome-initial-setup can create a
user. This utility was included by default in Debian GNOME 12, but has
to be installed manually in later versions.
Here is an open upstream issue requesting a "guest user" feature:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/414
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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