John Simpson wrote: > On 2006-04-01, at 0547, Rick Widmer wrote: > >> John Simpson wrote: >> >>> let me suggest an alternative- instead of "login user pass >>> compact", how about "login/compact user pass"? this allows the >>> password to be the last thing on the line, and therefore contain >>> spaces, and still allows for a "compact" option. >> >> >> What do you think about login | clogin | slogin?
Can we just take step back here...? We are proposing alternative login methods because the current "login" method returns all user information after a successful login, yes? Why not change the behaviour so that "login" does just that - it logs in, and add another command that returns the information, e.g. "get" So, a system only needing to validate credentials would just need to login and quit. "get" would take parameters, e.g: get name get user_dir There could also be a "set" command which ... you guessed it! set name "New Name" set system_admin_privileges 1 What do you think? R.
