Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:39:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Confused about locale Message-ID: <199612230939.KAA02149@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961223044718.1318B-100000@nagual.ru> from "[?KOI8-R?]" at "Dec 23, 96 04:50:41 am"
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As [?KOI8-R?] wrote: > > > I dislike idea of "system default" locale, I like idea of "user > > > default" locale instead! > > > > Ok. There will be a way of achieving this shortly via login.conf. > > Not so quick, it will be nice if user can change his preferences > easily. Yes. > > > There must be some field into passwd which indicates current user > > > startup locale which must be changeable by user via chpass. > > > > The last part is more difficult. But the field is already there > > in "class". > > What is difficult here? As man says "class" is pointer to termcap-style > attributes. Do you mean that they must be unchangeable by user? We should either extend chpass(1) to support more user-changeable options (preferred, since it's got a nice interface), or make pw(8) able to do this on behalf of the user (which also requires a user- usable frontend then). It's not only that certain parts of the login class should be changeable by the user, but e.g. for a site that maintains a `one group per user, and put them all into secondary groups' policy, the user should also be able to enable or disable people's access to `his' group without asking the sysadmin. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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