Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 01:13:57 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: bin/25961: rmuser is not case sensitive Message-ID: <200104150514.f3F5E6e30332@ns1.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <200104150146.f3F1kLj35188@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 14 Apr 2001, at 18:46, dougb@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: rmuser is not case sensitive > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: dougb > State-Changed-When: Sat Apr 14 18:44:45 PDT 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > > What benefit is obtained from having two users on the system with the > same username, differing only by case? Even if it was a benefit of > some sort, it would likely cause all kinds of other problems. The point of the PR is not to make it easier to have two users. The point of the PR is to remove the unexpected behaviour in the case where you DO have two users. I'm not setting administrative policy, which is beyond the scope of this PR (i.e. tools not policy). The script asks you if you want to remove a particular user (i.e. the one you specified). You confirm. Then the script removes both users. This violates POLA. I think the script is case sensitive for the confirmation but case insensitive for the delete. For consistency, it should use one or the other, but not both. I think case sensitive makes the most sense. If you do wind up with two users with the same name, different case, then at least rmuser can be used to remove the one you don't want. -- 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
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