CVS update: samba/source/nsswitch

[Richard Sharpe]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Tim Potter wrote:

> 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.

But what about those cases where the admin mis-spells the account or 
password? You would condemn them to a broken system?

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