Description of problem: When booted into a LIVE system, should the user choose to become user "root", the mageia-welcome app changes from "Live mode" to "Installed mode". Likewise, should a user create a user "live" in an installed system, either at installation or later, and either login to user "live" or su - into user "live", the "Live mode" mageia-welcome app is displayed. In the later case, the user "live" would not be able to use the "Installed mode" specific tabs. Possible fixes: 1/ somehow prevent user "live" being available as an installed system user. 2/ force the Live system Mageia-Welcome app to only allow user "live". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mageiawelcome-2.25-1.mga9 How reproducible: always under these circumstances. Steps to Reproduce: 1. in a live system become "root", or, in an installed system, create the user "live" and login to or su - into user "live" 2. 3.
Thank you for the report and ideas. Assigning to tools maintainers.
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatoolsCC: (none) => fri
A better fix: test if the system is booted in live mode by checking for the existence of the directory /run/mgalive.
CC: (none) => mageia
Summary: mageiawelcome app can be confused by users => mageiawelcome is confused by user name "live" when not live system, confused by "root" when live.