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Re: PATCH: newuser system

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From: Geoff Wing <gcw@xxxxxxx>
To: Zsh Hackers <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: newuser system
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:58:19 +1100
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On Wednesday 2005-11-23 22:13 +1100, Peter Stephenson output:
:The main thing I've been wanting before making test builds for the first
:4.3 release is a working zsh-newuser-install, otherwise it's not worth
:distributing the zsh/newuser module.
:
:Here's a first pass.  As this will be seen by a great many new users it
:really needs to be tested as widely as possible. 

I think it should abort in a couple of cases:
a) when run as root.  root should probably have to make his/her own changes
   manually (though maybe other people would think otherwise)
b) when we don't have write access to the HOME directory, say, after an su

Regards,
Geoff

References:
- PATCH: newuser system
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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