From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SesAf-00059E-Qm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:19:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C558E05F8; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C209E043A for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.2.88.37] (107-1-212-138-ip-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [107.1.212.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BECA11B400E for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:19:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FD8D991.4060704@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:18:57 -0400 From: Mike Gilbert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home References: <4FD8B910.3090606@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4FD8B910.3090606@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig17C3C36C69B9624EC6DA9721" X-Archives-Salt: 5db214a3-4193-49ac-b350-dea85297a001 X-Archives-Hash: 6e20358b03ca6abbc14042e614845ec3 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig17C3C36C69B9624EC6DA9721 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 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. --------------enig17C3C36C69B9624EC6DA9721 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iF0EAREIAAYFAk/Y2ZUACgkQC77qH+pIQ6QPgQD2LdHCwPAZ7EkT6o2K9tQv4W+z rB9Rx7dSmv8hhoTkzAD/TuMzcEtFVwpl/hJ4ybmMQ2EDykhCRrYkEFxkB+uX2aw= =Uu0x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig17C3C36C69B9624EC6DA9721--