From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 12 00:50:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA16578 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA16562 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:50:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA29403; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:50:30 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA29170; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:28:36 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:28:36 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-GAMMA install comments References: <199702112221.XAA17592@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <11902.855718740@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <11902.855718740@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Feb 11, 1997 19:39:00 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 2) in the "Adduser" form, the "Login Id" entry is a bit too small > > (5-6 chars instead of 8 ?) -- Also, if the adduser fails because of > > some problem (e.g. a non-existing group), the content of the form > > is not preserved and one has to reenter everything from scratch. > > I'll look into these if Joerg doesn't beat me to it - thanks! That wasn't too simple to avoid. First, there's serious lack of screen space, so some of the fields are fairly small (it's more apparent for the ``additional groups'' field if you're going to enter the standard groups of the #1 admin: "wheel,operator"). Nevertheless, there's enough space `under' the form to put 16-character username there, it will scroll left/right as you move the cursor over it. The latter is more difficult, since it would require a ``test only'' call to pw(8) either, or to completely saving the form's contents across subroutine calls. One should also note that i wrote the initial version of all that user&group management stuff with the time pressure of a near xmas 2.2 release in mind, ``just to have it in'', with the idea to do it right later. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)