Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:46:46 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: bin/25961: rmuser is not case sensitive Message-ID: <200104151946.f3FJkme33474@ns1.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <200104151925.f3FJPOm58457@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Would someone please reopen this PR? I don't think we're quite
finished with the feedback yet.
On 15 Apr 2001, at 12:25, dougb@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: rmuser is not case sensitive
>
> State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
*sigh*
> State-Changed-By: dougb
> State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 15 12:23:01 PDT 2001
> State-Changed-Why:
>
> Installations that have two users with the same characters capitalized
> differently should not be using the standard tools, since their situation
> is highly non-standard, and likely to break things.
You have completely missed my points. I am not saying that we should
cater for such installations. I'm talking about a situation where two
where two users with the same characters have been created, perhaps
by accident. Then they go to delete one. But rmuser deletes both.
> Given that it's hard to
> place POLA on one side or the other of this argument,
It's not hard to place POLA at all. Look at rmuser alone. In one section
of remuser, it is case sensitive ("is this the user do you wish to
delete?". In another, it's case insensitive ("OK, I'll delete both users
now"). This is a bug. Plain and simple. It asks if you to delete steve.
And it deletes both Steve and steve. That's not right.
> let's err on the side
> that is most likely to produce working systems for the majority of users.
How is fixing this bug going to break anything?
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Dan Langille
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got any work? I'm looking for some.
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