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Subject: Re: bin/25961: rmuser is not case sensitive 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:46:46 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:49:45 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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?
>
>-- 
>Dan Langille
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