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Login dialog: create a data-server account from it, not only with ecce-dataserver-adduser #203
Description
Today an account is made with ecce-dataserver-adduser in a terminal. A new user who sees ECCE's login dialog first has no hint that this command exists. A Create account… button in the dialog would make it discoverable.
Suggested behaviour
- Local data server (per user): the button asks for user name, password (twice), first and last name, runs
ecce-dataserver-adduser -b, then fills the login fields. - Central server (
ecce -remote): the client cannot create accounts on another machine. Hide the button, or show it disabled with "Ask your server administrator for an account" and theecce-dataserver-adduser/--from FILEcommands to pass on. - Show adduser's own error message when it fails (name taken, bad characters), not a generic one.
Questions
- On a central server, should the server's owner be able to create accounts from the dialog? That only works when the dialog runs on the server itself, so
ecce-dataserver-addusermay be enough there. - Passwords here keep users apart on a shared server; they are not a security boundary. Self-service creation on a local per-user server changes nothing about that.
Activity
ohlincha commentedon Sep 29, 2026
Decided: the server's owner can create accounts from the dialog too. The button is offered whenever the dialog runs as the account that owns the data server (the per-user server, or the central server's own account on the server machine), and runs
ecce-dataserver-adduser -bthere. On a client connected withecce -remoteit stays hidden, with the hint to ask the administrator.Login window offers to create the account on the per-user data server
ohlincha commentedon Oct 12, 2026
Part 1 (create the account on this computer's own data server) is in 9.0.0. Follow-up for 9.0.1, same scope: on the per-user data server, a forgotten password should be resettable from the login window ("Set a new password for andy on this computer's data server?"), since the server belongs to the user; today ecce-dataserver-adduser refuses an existing name and the only way is
htpasswd ~/.ECCE/dataserver/users NAME. Central servers keep administrator-only account management.ohlincha commentedon Oct 12, 2026
Part 1 is in 9.0.0 (c11b79f): on this computer's own data server the login window offers to create a missing account. Password reset follows in 9.0.1.
Login window: Forgot password... on this computer's own data server (#…
ohlincha commentedon Oct 13, 2026
In 9.0.1 (234cf20): on this computer's own data server the login window has Forgot password…, which sets a new password for an existing account. On a central server, a refused login names the command an administrator runs:
ecce-dataserver-adduser --passwd NAME.