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| From: | Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home | ||
| Date: | Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:19:58 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4FD8D991.4060704@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home by Ian Stakenvicius |
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| 1 | On 6/13/2012 12:00 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
| 2 | > Hey all - I'd like to propose that enewuser forces updates to a user's |
| 3 | > home dir and shell whenever it is called, so that if this changes with |
| 4 | > new versions of an ebuild it is dealt with automatically rather than |
| 5 | > having to modify them in pkg_postinst/pkg_setup directly. |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Can you give an example of a case where modifying the home directory |
| 9 | and/or shell is necessary? I don't really understand how this is useful. |
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| 11 | Also, grobian raised a good point in that the sysadmin may have changed |
| 12 | it manually. It might be better to ewarn and make the user deal with it. |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home | Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home | Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> |