[Labs-l] Reimplementing account expiries

Fri Feb 3 19:58:13 UTC 2017

Because the labs environment is always changing.  Moving xTools from Precise to Trusty will break the tools.  Thankfully the rewrite coming out soon, will fix that, but just saying.

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> On Feb 3, 2017, at 14:56, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> 
> Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> […]
> 
>> Are we keeping tracking of "last login" info for each user? Should we
>> modify the "become" script so it logs whenever someone uses it, so we know
>> which tools are actively being logged into by their developers? There are
>> so many other "passive" ways of determining which account/tool is actively
>> maintained than asking the user to confirm it.
> 
> There's also the question what "maintain" means.  Software
> does not suddenly break down; so if an application is suc-
> cessfully running, why should someone log into its account
> periodically?
> 
> Tim
> 
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