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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