Usability of 'samba-tool domain provision'

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed May 4 22:01:46 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 11:09 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 04/05/16 10:29, Peter C. Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > Andreas said:
> > 
> > > 
> > > This documents issues I
> > > found during provisioning. samba-tool is far away from being user
> > > friendly.
> > > a) It isn't clear what domain is from 'samba-tool domain provison
> > > --help'
> > I have raised bug 11894, and attached a patch which addresses this
> > point as per Rowland's suggested wording.
> > 
> > > 
> > > b) The --realm option is essential but at the end of the help ...
> > The reason that the realm is way down the bottom is that it is
> > under a
> > heading "Samba Common Options", along with configFile debuglevel
> > and
> > option.
> > 
> > What is currently holding me up from developing the second trivial
> > patch is a need for a bit more clarity on how this --help output
> > should look.  It seems to me that if the --domain parameter is
> > compulsory, then the heading text should say so,
> > and that if a realm has to be specified (or read in from an
> > existing
> > conf file) then perhaps that should be mentioned in the
> > introductory
> > text as well.
> > 
> > As I am a first time contributor I would be happy to make these
> > trivial changes, if I can get further input on what changes are
> > desirable.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> Hi, I did some work on this and sent Andreas a new domain.py that 
> addressed all of the issues he raised, I am still awaiting a reply
> from 
> Andreas (hint, hint)

Rowland,

Can you please post the patches to the mailing list?

I'm planning on merging the trivial typos in the meantime, it makes no
sense to block a new contributor while you look at the larger issues.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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