Hi Possibly first time setup ( for new installs) . I don't have immediate access to a fedora box. These can be restricted via policykit afaik.
Cheers On 4 Dec 2013 13:56, "Jehan Procaccia" <[email protected]> wrote: > hello > I use about a hundred fedora19 stations in computer labs at our school > users accounts comes from an ldap directory and the homedir is automounted > via NFS. > However, recently I noticed that on some stations, local user account had > been created ! > looking at the log file, I discovered in /var/log/secure something like > this: > > *accounts-daemon: request by system-bus-name ::1.733 > [/usr/libexec/gnome-initial-setup pid:15259 uid:991]: create user 'foobar'* > *useradd[29724]: new group: name=foobar, GID=1001* > *secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: new user: > name=susana, UID=1001, GID=1001, home=/home/susana, shell=/bin/bash* > *secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: add 'susana' to > group 'wheel'* > *secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: add 'susana' to > shadow group 'wheel'* > > Scary ! how comes gnome-initial-setup could create users, and morever add > them to the wheel group ! > could it be a bug in *gnome-initial-setup , *a feature side effect ? or > our students found a "back door" ? > any suggestion greatly appreciated . > > Thanks . > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > >
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