[831] in athena10
Re: Debathena: lenny version of bash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sun Jan 11 14:54:41 2009
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:53:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Michael A Forbes <miforbes@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> For what it's worth, though, the only change we make to bash in the
> Debathenification process is to add support for referring to lockers by
> using a path of the form ~~<locker> - you can likely get away with
> always referring to lockers by /mit/locker
Actually, there are two other changes:
(1) Passing --with-afs to configure. This does various small things to
make bash work better in an AFS environment.
(2) The Hesiod patch also causes ~foo to resolves foo first as a user and
then using Hesiod if the user doesn't exist; ~~foo is an override to force
Hesiod lookup.
On Debathena/Athena 10, /mit/<locker> is the canonical way to reference a
locker; the Hesiod patch is just there for compatability with Athena 9,
where /mit/<locker> doesn't work unless the locker was previously
attached.
-Tim Abbott
