CVS update: samba/source/nsswitch

[Richard Sharpe]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 09:57, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tim Potter wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:20:23PM +0000, jmcd at samba.org wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > >       Tag: SAMBA_3_0
> > > > 	wbinfo.c 
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > 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?
> 
> Short-forms of things are good, when you do something often - but this
> is a once-off command.  Anyway, the information probably would work, so
> that test isn't that useful...

I am sorry, that is just not true. What about the case where the admin 
gets the authentication information incorrect? We should be checking the 
info they provide to prevent the admin from having to hunt around for the 
reason for subsequent failure.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com