Hello! I do not understand this discussion. Perhaps someone could help me. It is a long establish practice with linux and other unices not to tell users who want to login, if there username is valid or not or if the password is wrong. The advantage of this method is, that a user cannot guess longin-names by simply trying out different names.
The HURD tells you, if the username is wright or wrong. It does not use the Linux-mechanism. So can someone please tell me, what is the advantage of telling a user, that the login is wrong and not simply telling a user, that the login or the password is wrong? I think there is no advantage in telling a user, that the login is wrong. But there may be a disadvantage in telling the user, that his login is wrong and not only telling the user, that his login-name or his password is wrong. So perhaps someone could tell me why the traditional linux und unix method of loggin in is changed in the HURD when there is obviously no advantage but there may be a disadvantage. Michi
