From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 15 12:46:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A81937B422; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:46:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (root@ns1.unixathome.org [192.168.0.20]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3FJkme33474; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 07:46:50 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200104151946.f3FJkme33474@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:46:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: bin/25961: rmuser is not case sensitive Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, In-reply-to: <200104151925.f3FJPOm58457@freefall.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message