This is a pretty neat solution to have everybody have their own .dotfiles on the machines they can acces: http://blog.booking.com/dotfiles-distribution-at-booking.com.html D
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]>wrote: > Dan Michael O. Heggø <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Haha, personally I prefer the "creepy wmf version" over the default, > but > >> > what I would really like is of course to use my own version when using > >> > service accounts. Did anyone find a way to this? (without actually > >> copying > >> > the file) I like the concept of service accounts, but really miss my > >> > dotfiles when using them. > > >> > [...] > > >> Can't you make your .vimrc world-readable (does it contain > >> sensitive information?) and then "vim -u ~user/.vimrc"? Ah, > >> sudo even sets SUDO_USER to the calling user, so you could > >> somewhat automate that even for multiple maintainers. > > > SUDO_USER is very useful indeed. Do you also know which initialization > > files are called when becoming a service account? It would be nice to > > add `alias > > vim="vim -u ~$SUDO_USER/.vimrc"` somewhere, but .bashrc (for the service > > account) does not seem to be read. > > ~/.bashrc is usually called by ~/.profile which is missing > for service accounts as well. So I copy these (slightly > adapted) to new tools I create, not least to alias "rm" to > "rm -i" :-). > > That's an issue that has me thinking for some days now: > Shouldn't service accounts' home directories be set up from > /etc/skel as well? > > Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > > > yes it works by doing vim -u BUT that means you need to add some extra > > stuff to .profile of every user on every project you use :/ > > > I understand that someone likes the version that we have on labs by > > default, but shouldn't people have option to choose what they like, > > rather than being forced to use something what someone thinks that is > > better for them... > > > [...] > > How would that work? Either the plain vim or the WMF-style > users will not like the default. But both have the option > to choose something different (I assume; I don't use vim). > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >
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