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Re: Making duplex via LPROPT the default for new accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Sun May 11 22:16:44 2008
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
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Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:16:05 -0400
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Hi Greg,
Would it cause any problems to add the .generation file to the moira
copy of the prototype user dotfiles now? It seems like that would work
with your proposed change, and once the patch release goes out the
right thing would happen for the class of 2012. They are starting to
register en masse now, and if we wait with the whole change until the
end of May, I suspect we will miss the majority.
Alternatively I suppose we could place a .generation file into their
homedirs retroactively, but I'm a little more wary about doing that.
It's something we've traditionally steered away from.
Garry, if there are no objections, would it be possible for you to add
the .generation file with the value 1 into the moira copy of the
prototype user homedir contents?
Thanks,
Oliver
On May 7, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
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