On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, David King wrote:
> On 02/20/2018 09:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, chicago wrote:
> >
> >> You can configure multiple ssh keys but that's an ssh profile. Also
> >> you can have separate Firefox prprofiles but I doubt they mean that.
> >>
> >> I think a standard "profile" would be a great idea but it would need
> >> buy in from everyone.
> > i would love to cut and paste from this PDF doc, but it's
> > security-protected to disallow that. however, here's the money quote:
> >
> > "Each user can create several user profiles for business or personal
> > use."
> >
> > i'm still reading but i've seen nothing yet that supports that
> > interpretation.
> >
> > rday
> >
> That language isn't clear to me either. The following things cross my
> mind as possibilities:
>
> * Bash login profiles. This doc is an example of describing these as
> user profiles: http://linux-training.be/security/ch04.html
> * LDAP directory user entities, groups (roles) and profile/directory
> metadata, assuming the *nix system tied to an LDAP for authentication
> * Mail client profiles (ex. I have separate business and personal
> identities defined in Thunderbird)
i finished the section ... it dealt only with customizing /etc/skel,
/etc profile, and so on and so on, all standard stuff ... completely
misleading reference to "user profiles." grrrrrrrr ...
rday
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