[1473] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Mar 10 12:33:20 2009
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Greg Price <price@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903101103540.6733@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:33:04 -0400
>>> I don't think forcing the gconf key on -cluster users is useful;
>>> they can
>>> always run a build of xscreensaver out of their home directory
>>> instead if
>>> they want to avoid the logout button.
>>
>>
>> I assume you meant -workstation, not -cluster, right? (Since we
>> currently
>> _do_ force cluster users to have a logout button)
>
> I was suggesting we could get away with changing -cluster to just
> set the
> default, rather than force the issue, because it doesn't really
> change the
> user's ability to not have a logout button if he really wants to. We
> could also just force the issue on -workstation. I don't think it's
> going
> to cause serious problems either way, but I think it's best that what
> happens when you login on a "private" workstation be the same as
> when you
> login on a "public" workstation.
OK, I see now. Let's go ahead with setting it to the default (but not
mandatory) for -cluster and -workstation, unless someone wants to make
the case for it being mandatory in both places, but it sounds like
there's objection to that. There's always the "hit the power button"
option for people who are excessively abusing cluster workstations and
don't have logout buttons.
And yes, there's a lot of value in having "private" workstations be as
close to "public" ones as possible.
-Jon
