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Course materials for the IBioIC Introduction to Bioinformatics training course
https://widdowquinn.github.io/Teaching-IBioIC-Intro-to-Bioinformatics/
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Tweaks for setting up the user accounts on the VM #17

Closed peterjc closed 7 years ago

widdowquinn commented 7 years ago

I'm inclined not to put this in master.

1) mkpasswd is now installed on the VM (you were working on a previous version, where we were not expecting to have to create users), so https://github.com/widdowquinn/Teaching-IBioIC-Intro-to-Bioinformatics/pull/17/commits/6e935e177e7158dfd874584486ad0953377fdea3 is redundant. I think the appropriate place for this would be in a Dockerfile if we are to package the materials that way, in the future (which would be sensible, perhaps). 2) I want us to be able to create the users on the VM without also copying materials into their $HOME as in https://github.com/widdowquinn/Teaching-IBioIC-Intro-to-Bioinformatics/pull/17/commits/83986121e658bdeef80ab9fff5b5afb7daa7c110. If we copy materials across, we significantly bloat the virtual HD, with implications for our filehosting, and the ease of VM transfer. I would rather that we have a separate script to copy the materials/repo across users, than combining both actions.

peterjc commented 7 years ago

Agreed, the changes merged in #18 take care of this and more.