From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 13:27:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E793106564A; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:27:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485098FC0C; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so6468044wer.13 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:27:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=+8j10F1tdyggMbXvVciuJBxRLIva3pLccKZL+icmd70=; b=Q0mmAiHSR8pLMnpyZS/jIwguBz7B1moqT51pWamOlkzmL/qitCXreP6eOBaQeRXOkl z2ue5FZ4sBRhcJ57MTlOFOwHGmnLyajHFseEc+v7WzjoEbs5e1/nngsv5hGZkIUBebTm m2/3sHerUbc86TlNrSRqVmvccNrgzrGlNG4bI= Received: by 10.180.80.35 with SMTP id o3mr24229390wix.5.1329226046274; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:27:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.15.90 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:26:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1328887627.38277.68.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> From: Eitan Adler Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:26:56 -0500 Message-ID: To: Astrodog Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl9iYRyxDDvjcuOb4OFiDiDDT+Q3BcMHpQla3xkfd6UmKb21ygeIERrtFGWY9seK1z7XLf3 Cc: Chris Rees , Colin Percival , freebsd-current Current , "Wojciech A. Koszek" Subject: Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:27:28 -0000 On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog wrote: > Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said... > Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. > I think everyone agrees that the default prompt isn't particularly > informative, however, achieving consensus here is going to be almost > impossible. I suggest that it be handled as a seperate discussion, > perhaps? That would result in even more of a bikeshed than this thread. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with one of the prompts posted to this thread after a bit of experimentation. Remember that the prompts are for inexperienced users and those of you with awesome prompts are not the target audience for the change. > I am against this change, barring a more compelling reason to include > it. Default behavior limits $PATH to areas that are only writable as > root, and there is no garuntee that $HOME can only be written by the > user. As a result, the change may create unanticipated and unnoticed > security consequences some installations. I believe this outweighs the > functionality provided by the proposed change, given how trivial this > is to configure after the fact. set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) is the default -- Eitan Adler