[PATCH] mkpasswd.c - allows selection of specific user
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Thu Nov 1 05:38:00 GMT 2001
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:24:47PM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote:
>It just occurred to me that the patch I submitted for mkpasswd.c causes one
>of its error messages to be a bit misleading. If you ask mkpasswd for a
>user that doesn't exist it will say:
>"NetUserEnum() failed with error 2221.
>That user doesn't exist."
>
>While the error number is correct, and the explanation on the second line is
>right, it's not actually NetUserEnum that's been called to determine that.
>I don't know if you care about this, but maybe the following patch could be
>thrown in to make that error a bit more generic (and correct).
I agree that the user doesn't have to know about NetUserEnum but the
error message should be something like "mkpasswd: user doesn't exist".
Some of the messages are like this already. Are you interested in
genercizing the rest of the mkpasswd warnings?
cgf
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>2001-12-03 Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com>
>
> * mkpasswd.c: (enum_users): Fix an error message.
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