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Re: Making duplex via LPROPT the default for new accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Apr 16 12:13:17 2008
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
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True, although we usually try to tell people to move their dotfiles
out of the way anyway, if they're getting new copies.
Is it feasible to only put the .environment in moira's copy of the
prototype_user, or is that just a bad idea?
-Jon
On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Camilla R Fox wrote:
>
>> To clarify, I meant creating a .environment in protoype_user, where
>> none currently exists, that has the following:
>
> Note that this has an unintended consequence: it's no longer
> non-destructive to tell a user to 'cp /usr/prototype_user/.??* ~'.
>
> (Previously, none of the files in prototype_user were likely to harbor
> customizations.)
>
> -Camilla
