Here is our thinking on Ubuntu Core devices and user accounts. Ubuntu Core is largely for devices that operate with almost no human interaction. You install the device, it updates itself forever, life is good.
In that case, most devices will not have many or any user accounts. That's completely different to a laptop or developer system, or a normal server, which has many people who might log into it on any given day. For that reason, having the user account on Ubuntu Core be single-sign accounts makes sense. This is exactly the trend in the world - look at modern wifi access points, for example. You get a single management account, usually in the cloud, and you manage all devices through that. The net effect is much better security for these devices. In due course, we will reduce dependency on the Ubuntu SSO (this is just the current implementation, we envisage enabling people to have their own identity systems). But the base idea that you don't want to be setting a separate username and password on these devices is very well reasoned and appropriate. Mark -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581713 Title: Ubuntu Software always asks for an Ubuntu Single Sign-On account when installing or removing a snap package Status in Ubuntu GNOME: Triaged Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in snapd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: If I try to uninstall a snap using Ubuntu Software, it asks for an Ubuntu Single Sign-On account. It seems strange since if I use a terminal and do: $ sudo snap remove john-the-ripper Everything works as expected. BTW: Ubuntu Software takes ages to find out the size of the snap package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1581713/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
