On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog <astrodog_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said... > Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. > I think everyone agrees that the default prompt isn't particularly > informative, however, achieving consensus here is going to be almost > impossible. I suggest that it be handled as a seperate discussion, > perhaps? That would result in even more of a bikeshed than this thread. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with one of the prompts posted to this thread after a bit of experimentation. Remember that the prompts are for inexperienced users and those of you with awesome prompts are not the target audience for the change. > I am against this change, barring a more compelling reason to include > it. Default behavior limits $PATH to areas that are only writable as > root, and there is no garuntee that $HOME can only be written by the > user. As a result, the change may create unanticipated and unnoticed > security consequences some installations. I believe this outweighs the > functionality provided by the proposed change, given how trivial this > is to configure after the fact. set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) is the default -- Eitan AdlerReceived on Tue Feb 14 2012 - 12:27:28 UTC
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