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From: Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org>
To: Zsh Hackers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: newuser system
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:58:19 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051129015819.GA9420@primenet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511231113.jANBD95L013878@news01.csr.com>

On Wednesday 2005-11-23 22:13 +1100, Peter Stephenson output:
:The main thing I've been wanting before making test builds for the first
:4.3 release is a working zsh-newuser-install, otherwise it's not worth
:distributing the zsh/newuser module.
:
:Here's a first pass.  As this will be seen by a great many new users it
:really needs to be tested as widely as possible. 

I think it should abort in a couple of cases:
a) when run as root.  root should probably have to make his/her own changes
   manually (though maybe other people would think otherwise)
b) when we don't have write access to the HOME directory, say, after an su

Regards,
Geoff


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-29  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-23 11:13 Peter Stephenson
2005-11-24  6:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-11-24  6:17   ` Clint Adams
2005-11-24  6:28   ` Danek Duvall
2005-11-24 11:42   ` Peter Stephenson
2005-11-24 18:20     ` Bart Schaefer
2005-11-25 10:24       ` Peter Stephenson
2005-11-26 23:18         ` Bart Schaefer
2005-11-24 18:52     ` Wayne Davison
2005-11-29  1:58 ` Geoff Wing [this message]
2006-02-18  8:42   ` newuser in 4.3.0-dev-4 (Was: PATCH: newuser system) Geoff Wing
2006-02-18 12:57     ` Peter Stephenson
2006-02-19  5:13       ` Geoff Wing
2006-02-20 11:09         ` Peter Stephenson

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