[indiana-discuss] Default Shell

[Dave Miner]

Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:34 -0400, Dave Miner wrote:
>> Nothing else related to a user account should be "annoying to change
>> later"; if they are, IMHO that's a bug in the Administration tools,
>> not the installer, and that's where we need to address things.
> 
> Unless you're proposing a radical rethinking of the unix
> account/permissions model, an account's uid will always be extremely
> annoying to change.  
> 
> Changing the field in /etc/passwd is easy but insufficient.
> 

Correct, and I wasn't asserting it was.  However, the rest of your case 
is predicated on a person such as yourself being sufficiently unaware 
that they might have a mismatched uid for a sufficient length of time to 
cause themselves great agony in many places on a corporate network, and 
I'm fairly skeptical on that front.  If you're someone for which this 
matters, I believe you normally know it, and would change this as one of 
your first acts after logging in the first time.  And at that point, 
changing /etc/passwd and chown -R on your home directory pretty much 
covers the extent of the damage that may have occurred.

Dave