Aaron Stone wrote:
Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
perhaps -W should be default?
My plan for -W is that if you give it a filename as an argument, it reads the
file. If you give it '-' or no argument, then it reads from stdin (the '-'
might turn off the friendly prompt, but otherwise read the same input).
It might be reasonable to prompt for a password if none is given or to create
the user without a password. Not sure which I like better.
If so, it should give feedback on what ir's going to do: For which user
is the password, and what kind of encryption is it going to use for the
password.
There's only one user in the scenario, which is the user being operated on. It
is assumed that anybody with access to this binary has the authority to manage
user accounts.
That's probably a bad assumption, and it might be a good idea to have a MySQL
style administrative accounts table. If dbmail-users is setuid, then the
dbmail.conf can be root readable only. That would disallow regular users from
finding the database password and making changes directly.
Also, I don't want to completely rebuild the application so much as I just
want to make the interface more sane. Since we're starting to look at a lot
more options than we'll easily have single character mnemonics for, either we
can go for getopt_long (and for non-gnu systems, I have a public domain
version) or we can use a hybrid of keywords and switches. Like this:
dbmail-users add <username> -s [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -p <password>
dbmail-users forward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> '|>>forwardlog'
This looks ok. I don't think we should go for the non-standard long
options (although I know for experience that they're
very useful).
perhaps an 'interactive' option would be nice, just like 'rm -i', which
asks gives feedback on the action:
About to remove user foo
Is this correct? [y/N]:
Using -i for this option would be best I guess (I see it's already taken
in your scheme)
Just the opposite, I would prefer to have interactive mode by default and have
an option to set non-prompting, force mode. I removed the quiet keyword, but
definitely have plans to find a place to put it back in. Perhaps changing '-q
quota' to '-m max' and so '-q means quiet/force all yes'
OK.
Ilja
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