removing -A

Jim McDonough jmcd at us.ibm.com
Mon Jun 23 22:53:18 EST 2003





>The only remaining case, it seems to me, that is not handled is where
>someone does wbinfo -A when they meant to do wbinfo -a and they also
>supply account details that are powerful enough to do what is needed but
>are not the ones they intended to supply.
Yes, and this is enough reason to remove -A.  I've more than once run into
folks who did this.  As soon as that user changed his password, it was all
over.  Perhaps changing it to a different letter would be ok, if you're
really set on a short version (though there are other wbinfo options that
don't).  It was a mistake for me to have put in the -A to begin with.  I
should have used a different letter.  But now is the time to get rid of it,
or we'll be seeing a lot more "me too"s on  this.

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