On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:06:38AM +0100, Hans-Georg Bork wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:00 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:21:44AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > I'm not sure now that what I really want is a jr-specific tool for > > > setting up user accounts. I'd rather see the intelligence be *in the > > > Debian system* itself, and not in the per-user configs in each child's > > > home dir. See my post in the "per user config in debian-jr packages" > > > today for a few ideas on this. > > > > do you mean you'd rather use some sort of user/group config to handle > > this? I read the other thread and frankly don't understand it really, > > but will read more and see if I can tease it out. > > Please take my first mail in "the other thread" as a reference to this. > > IMHO it is an advantage of having several groups (which can be made with > ages as well, e.g. child_5-6, child_10-12, ...), that way a config > skeleton could be build which is then applied to the members of that > group during login; that way only the group of the user has to be change > if role (age) changes. > > > [...] > > I see setting up a script that tweaks all the configs for a > > user to fit a particular age group. Later a nice front-end could be > > tacked on to the thing to make click-scroll mom happy. > > That script should reside in the group-skeleton and all what mom then > has to do is changing the group (probably using a nice interface). okay, that makes sense. thanks. is this group-skeleton idea something that already exists? or you are proposing? a quick grep of my /etc returns not much... A
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature