FW: [PATCH] mkpasswd.c - allows selection of specific user

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Jan 12 12:37:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:33:14AM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote:
>That's what I (a sys admin) thought too.  I like that.  I think I'll try the
>brackets and see how it looks.

I'm a sysadmin (of a couple of sites) but I certainly don't have errnos
or Windows error number memorized.  I'm much more likely to be able to
help if someone reads me the text than if someone tells me a number.

Text is much less likely to suffer from dyslexic problems, too.

And, as I mentioned, including the number is unlike any other utility
in winsup/utils and any normal unix utility.

cgf



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