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Re: Making duplex via LPROPT the default for new accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Wed Apr 16 14:09:28 2008
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:08:44 -0400
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I think I'd prefer to have the two in sync. The expectation was always
(or at least should have been) that copying the files out of
prototype_user got you the default dotfiles (not necessarily the ones
you had when you first registered for your account in 1989--speaking
for myself of course). It's just that we haven't changed the default
files in a loooong time. Maintaining the practice of having folks move
existing dotfiles out of the way before copying is important. But
otherwise the risk seems acceptable to me...
Oliver
On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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
>
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