Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:52:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ron@infi.net (Ron Steele) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SysAdmin Round 2 Message-ID: <199607090152.SAA23317@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960708145150.1487A-100000@localhost> from "Ron Steele" at Jul 8, 96 04:27:12 pm
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> A further question: How do people like to have default values, and behaviors > stored. The obvious things are environment variables, config files, > and command line params. I personally dislike a zillion command line > parameters. The choice of config files or environment variables seems > to be a choice between two evils. If no one cares I will likely do > the config file thing. Like monotonically increasing default user ID assignment as an "element of the environment"? I think it's necessary. I'd like to see *some* policy, but I'd be shy to embed "user class ranges" (like those in the current "adduser" for "batch" adds) into the tools themselves -- leave that for scripting at the command line level. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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