removing -A

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Tue Jun 24 05:04:26 EST 2003


On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Jim McDonough wrote:

> >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.

Hmmm, well, that is a much better reason that what I saw before ... 
perhaps we need this level of explanation in the commit messages?

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




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