[822] in Moira
Re: suggested changes to "register a user" function in moira
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Oct 28 20:56:34 1994
To: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU, accounts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Oct 1994 08:45:30 PDT."
<9410121545.AA06317@mr-toad.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 20:56:18 EDT
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Rather than let you specify a username of someone to register, you
>> have to specify their uid. Being able to specify a username would be
>> easier for us, since if the person doesn't already have a username we
>> just use the regular /mit/register/register program.
I haven't done this, although I may if I get some time to look at it,
yeah right. :-) You know that you can specify the users full name by
telling moira you don't know th uid, right?
>> The more important change I'd like to see, though, would be for the
>> function to not use nothing as the default username when you're
OK, for now, it guesses u<UID>, not terribly sophisticated, but it's
not the null strings. If I make the above change, I'll make the guess
more intelligent too.
>> When creating a new filesystem, I'd like it if the default type were
>> changed from NFS to AFS.
A one character change; done.
>> Also, if the lockertype is "homedir", I'd
>> like it to use the name of the locker as the default owner and group,
>> rather than using my name as the defaults. We don't usually make
>> mistakes on either of these, but if it's not too much work to
>> implement it would save us some typing.
This one's harder. I have not done it. I may get to it later, but I
may not.
Jonathon
