On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:15:12PM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Anyway, suffice it to say, we can't even consider mucking with the > user's setting of PATH. > Its a non-starter.
Could you clarify something? Just what exactly is a non-starter? Mucking with the user's PATH without asking them? (I hope so!) Or is any PATH management tool out of the question as well? I.e., can we build a GUI tool that can manage users' PATH settings? And if we can, can it be invoked on first login, on first login after update, after patch? Because I could see a voluntary PATH management tool as useful. Of course, because shell dot files are scripts whose flow control we could not analyze in such a tool, such a tool would be limited to users whose shell dot files adhere to some conventions (which the account skeleton's would). Nico --
