On 2012-02-06 11:03:12 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > This is a problem of opposing goals. One group wants the system to be > popular and easy to use for novices. The other group wants it to have > technical excellence. It is exactly with issues such as this that > they are opposing goals.
But instead of reading options from an admin file (under /etc), it could read options from a user file (under his $HOME). I think there could be at least 3 values for the ssh-agent option: 1. Always start a ssh-agent. 2. Never start a ssh-agent. 3. Start a ssh-agent except if the user's .xsession file is used. Possibly other options for users of gnome-keyring-daemon (as if I understand correctly, it can also start an ssh-agent)? (3) makes sense as the default, as users of a .xsession file generally want to control things. Novices don't use a .xsession file, so that there won't be any problem with them. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
