Nicolas Williams wrote: > 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!) > Yes. > 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 > I've never seen this proposed or discussed, so I can only give a personal opinion. I see no reason this couldn't be implemented. After all, vi is such a tool, just not a very friendly one.
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