From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:18:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD8D991.4060704@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD8B910.3090606@gentoo.org>
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On 6/13/2012 12:00 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> Hey all - I'd like to propose that enewuser forces updates to a user's
> home dir and shell whenever it is called, so that if this changes with
> new versions of an ebuild it is dealt with automatically rather than
> having to modify them in pkg_postinst/pkg_setup directly.
>
Can you give an example of a case where modifying the home directory
and/or shell is necessary? I don't really understand how this is useful.
Also, grobian raised a good point in that the sysadmin may have changed
it manually. It might be better to ewarn and make the user deal with it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-13 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-13 16:00 [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 17:19 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-13 17:21 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:45 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:47 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:09 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-06-13 18:32 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:56 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-06-13 19:04 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-13 19:11 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 19:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-13 19:35 ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: esethome Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 20:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-15 13:16 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-15 13:27 ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-15 13:35 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-15 13:39 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-06-15 13:41 ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-15 13:53 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-06-15 14:05 ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-15 14:23 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-06-15 14:34 ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-13 18:18 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2012-06-13 18:22 ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home Samuli Suominen
2012-06-13 18:27 ` Ian Stakenvicius
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