Re: [PATCH 00/16] Improvements, mainly to user name handling and scp.

2016-01-11 Thread Michael Witten
In-Reply-To<20151229150334.gb27...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <20151229150334.gb27...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:03:34 +0800, Matt Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:42:59PM -, Michael Witten wrote: >> User

Re: [PATCH 00/16] Improvements, mainly to user name handling and scp.

2016-01-11 Thread Michael Witten
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:03:34 +0800, Matt Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:42:59PM -, Michael Witten wrote: >> User names have hitherto been handled neither consistently nor well; this >> series alleviates at least some of the issues. >> >> Fear not the long patch series! >> >>

Re: [PATCH 00/16] Improvements, mainly to user name handling and scp.

2016-01-11 Thread Michael Witten
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:37:09 -, Michael Witten wrote: > Message-ID: <2666123da20b47a589b819f37bd4cc54-mfwit...@gmail.com> > In-Reply-To<20151229150334.gb27...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> > References: > <20151229150334.gb27...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>

Re: [PATCH 00/16] Improvements, mainly to user name handling and scp.

2015-12-29 Thread Matt Johnston
Hi Michael, I think the general change of these patches makes sense (avoiding failure when a local user doesn't exist) but it needs to be more minimal. scp comes straight from OpenSSH with some small changes for uClinux etc. I've tried to avoid additional changes since it really needs updating to

Re: [PATCH 00/16] Improvements, mainly to user name handling and scp.

2015-12-23 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
08.12.2015, 01:48, "Michael Witten" : > User names have hitherto been handled neither consistently nor well; this > series alleviates at least some of the issues. > > Fear not the long patch series! > > Most commits involve a fairly small number of changes; while I could have