Renaming s4 'net' to 'samba-tool'

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 23:48 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> On 24 October 2010 23:30, Matthieu Patou <mat at samba.org> wrote:
> > On 24/10/2010 23:45, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 08:10 -0700, Kai Blin wrote:
> >>>
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> >>> On 2010-10-24 03:14, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Metze,
> >>>
> >>>> I noticed that you tried to do a push a commit which renames
> >>>> 'net' in source4 to 'samba-tool'.
> >>>
> >>> Jelmer and I discussed some of the steps needed to proceed with the
> >>> merged build system, and net was one of the candidates that we needed to
> >>> keep from both s3 and s4.
> >>>
> >>>> I think we should first discuss, which name we want to use here.
> >>>> We have to keep this name (I guess) for at least 10 years, so
> >>>> we better make sure we all like it.
> >>>
> >>> This is something we thought about before starting, and we tried to find
> >>> a name that conveys the use of the tool. Unfortunately, 'net' has always
> >>> been the kitchen-sink tool. As there's already a synchronization tool
> >>> out there called kitchensink, that name was out ;).
> >
> > What about net4 ?
> 
> I don't really like "net" for the name, because some of the commands
> directly manipulate the LDB files and have nothing to do with any
> network.

Exactly.  Net was chosen to somehow emulate the 'net' command in
windows, but as the syntax was never even comparable, it didn't even
succeed at this goal.  I also think that the 'net4' name projects an
assumption that we will never have anything beyond Samba 4.0, or that
the project will never merge back into one release. 

> > If not net command is more like samba's swiss army knife so what about smbsa
> > or smbsak ?
> 
> smbsak makes me think of:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key

Yeah, smbsak doesn't quite work for me...

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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