[rancid] reason for autoenable?

[john heasley]

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:35:01AM -0400, Lee:
> On 8/26/10, john heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:04:25PM -0400, Lee:
> >>   ... more newbie questions
> >>
> >> If the userid automatically gets priv level 15 at login and you forget
> >> to set the autoenable flag the clogin script times out waiting for the
> >> ">" prompt.  Why was the autoenable flag added instead of changing the
> >> expect script to look for # or >?  It seems nicer not to require a
> >> flag...
> >
> > i'll blame Hank again.  autoenable just simplifies the code by moving the
> > burden.
> >
> > I have a patch to remove it, but it still wants to enable.  i'd like poeple
> > to test before its is committed.  see attached.
> 
> I'll be glad to give it a try; I need to apply the patch to clogin.in
> and then do a "make && make install" - correct?

either clogin or clogin.in; the patch affects nothing that is replaced by
the autoconf process.