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Re: Making duplex via LPROPT the default for new accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 7 21:28:46 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:52:15 -0400
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Earliest we can do a patch release to get this out is late this month.
I'll plan to have one then.
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 08:48 -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> This sounds fine with me. Can this happen in time to catch the bulk
> of the class of '12 registrations?
>
> I assume we'd have to decide as a matter of policy that if you nuke
> your account, you don't get "your" .generation back, you get the most
> recent one, and are then subject to any changes that have happened
> since you registered for your account. Which is fine, since it's no
> different than getting the latest .cshrc, I suppose.
>
> I can take care of updating our stock answers, and can send updated
> text to Heather Anne for the Dotfiles olh document, once we have a date.
>
> -Jon
>
>
> On May 7, 2008, at 5:54 AM, ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
>
> >> I will discuss this at the release team meeting tomorrow and try to
> >> resolve it then.
> >
> > Scratch that plan; I'll discuss it in email.
> >
> > My idea is to introduce some kind of counter which increases every
> > time we change a preference for new accounts. For lack of a better
> > term, I'll call this a generation. Currently we are in generation 0,
> > which is marked by the lack of a .generation file. The components of
> > this change are, then:
> >
> > * Install a .generation file containing "1" in /usr/prototype_user
> > and configure Moira to install it for new accounts.
> >
> > * In the environment setup of the global cshrc and bashrc, read the
> > epoch. Set LPROPT to -Zduplex if the epoch is at least 1.
> >
> > To change this preference, users can just set LPROPT to another value
> > in their .environment files.
>
