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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:32:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3bd864acdfc7868fe5476c956cc469c4ab973adb.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e74a2dff-88a7-eaa6-5476-815bfa2b14a3@gentoo.org>

On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 19:23 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> On 2021-01-08 19:14, Michał Górny wrote:
> > The one floppym suggested, i.e. the same as sent patch but with
> > the default staying on the current behavior.
> 
> Do I understand correctly? You are willing to accept my patch but with
> 
>  > ACCT_USER_ALLOW_EXISTING_USER_TO_BE_MODIFIED
> 
> defaulting to a non-zero value to keep current behavior?
> 
> This would be an acceptable compromise for me like it would allow users 
> like me at least to opt-out. I would still try to convince Gentoo to 
> change the default later because I believe this is a bad default but of 
> course I would accept any voting results on this implementation detail.

In principle, yes.  However, when such a patch is sent I may have more
requests.  For a start, shorter variable name, say, ACCT_USER_NO_MODIFY
or ACCT_USER_NO_UPDATE.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny




  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-08 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04  1:35 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04  2:41 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04  3:17   ` Alec Warner
2021-01-04  3:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 14:46   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 15:24     ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 15:55       ` David Seifert
2021-01-04 16:18         ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:28           ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:30             ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:34               ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:38                 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:50                   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:56                     ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:56                     ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 16:54                 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04  7:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2021-01-04 16:45   ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2021-01-04 18:07     ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:20       ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 18:38         ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:23       ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 18:27         ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:32           ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04  9:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2021-01-04 14:05   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:10   ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 16:14     ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:20       ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:11       ` Fabian Groffen
2021-01-08 18:14         ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 18:23           ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:32             ` Michał Górny [this message]
2021-01-08 15:48 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:03   ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 16:29     ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:50       ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:06       ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 18:10         ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:31           ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 19:15             ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:16       ` Michał Górny

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