From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 23 01:51:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA26429 for current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA26421 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:50:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA19696 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:50:56 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA10405 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:50:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id KAA02149 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:39:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612230939.KAA02149@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Confused about locale To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:39:09 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "[?KOI8-R?]" at "Dec 23, 96 04:50:41 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)