svn commit: r281129 - head/etc

Slawa Olhovchenkov slw at zxy.spb.ru
Fri Apr 10 11:18:48 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 01:22:04PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 03:02:54AM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> S> If we add a new, 'russian_utf8' login class:
> S> * New and existing users created without login class are unaffected;
> S> * New users created with the 'russian' class explicitly
> S>   set will have KOI-8 encoding enabled;
> S> * New users created with the 'russian_utf8' class explicitly
> S>   set will have UTF-8 encoding enabled;
> S> * Existing russian UTF8 users are unaffected
> S> * Existing KOI8-R users are unaffected
> S> * Login classes for both UTF8 and KOI8-R are available
> S> 
> S> Am I missing something? 
> 
> What if I am 15 year old newbie, who doesn't know all the drama
> around 8-bit era. And I read on the Internet, that FreeBSD is
> superior to Ubuntu. So I decided to try FreeBSD. What login
> class would I choose: russian or russian_utf8? The latter

===
# adduser 
Username: xxx
Full name: xxx
Uid (Leave empty for default): 
Login group [xxx]: 
Login group is xxx. Invite xxx into other groups? []: 
Login class [default]:
===

How do you know about 'russian'? adduser don't give any hint about.

> is something I don't know about, so I will choose the former.



> Also, if we speak about existing installations. Those have
> /etc/adduser.conf saved. And new users would be prompted
> to be created with 'russian' class, since previous were.
> So new users would be created with KOI8-R til end of life
> of the box.

Are you think just changed koi8 to utf8 in login.conf is enough? You
kidding. If we have saved /etc/adduser.conf -- we very likely have ton
of scripts koi8 cacpable (and utf8 incapabile). I am try, I am know.


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