CVS update: samba/source/nsswitch

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Sat Jun 21 12:28:49 EST 2003


On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:57:11PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> > > Remove the -A option of wbinfo, leaving only the long version, 
> > > --set-auth-user.  There was enough confusion, as in bug #158,
> > > when a user accidentally typed -A instead of -a, and would get themselves
> > > stuck with a non-working winbind.
> > 
> > Nice one.  I've done this myself a couple of times.  That should have
> > been a hint.  (-:
> 
> Hmmm, but do we really want to do that? I like having short forms like 
> that, and surely we could test that information presented works before 
> writing it to the secrets file?

I think we should stick with the new format.  It's too easy to get it
wrong and break your system badly just because you didn't press the
shift key once.


Tim.



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