From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 2 4:45:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE9037B400 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 04:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu (allbery@VPN14.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.14]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g12Cj1j29086; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 07:45:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: Kenneth W Cochran Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200202020842.DAA11096920@shell.TheWorld.com> References: <5F46C986-16DB-11D6-8CEC-00039359034A@mac.com> <200202020842.DAA11096920@shell.TheWorld.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 02 Feb 2002 07:44:43 -0500 Message-Id: <1012653902.2867.3.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 03:42, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > >The point of the program would be to edit the "FreeBSD > >Registry", rc.conf, and make it look just like the Windows > >Registry in the editor, using "_" as the implied path > >component/terminal component (key) seperator. > > *Very* bad idea. OSes such as FreeBSD (or Unix in general, > for that matter) should *not* be made-up to "look-like" > something they're not, *especially* Windows. Yes and no. Blindly copying the \HKEY_* crap would be a seriously bad idea... but a GUI tool for rc.conf and sysctl maintenance would, I think, be a good thing. Not everyone wants to be forced to become a traditional Unix sysadmin, and "just run Windows and be done with it" isn't always the answer. (However, I fully agree that this doesn't belong on -stable.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message