Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:49:45 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: dan@langille.org Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/25961: rmuser is not case sensitive Message-ID: <92512.987364185@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:46:46 EDT." <200104151946.f3FJkme33474@ns1.unixathome.org>
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I agree with Dan here, rmuser breaks POLA by being inconsistent.
In message <200104151946.f3FJkme33474@ns1.unixathome.org>, "Dan Langille" write
s:
>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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