Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread John Simpson
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 "compac

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread Robin Bowes
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 >

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread Rick Widmer
Robin Bowes wrote: We are proposing alternative login methods because the current "login" method returns all user information after a successful login, yes? Kind of. Why not change the behaviour so that "login" does just that - it logs in, and add another command that returns the informatio

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread Rick Widmer
John Simpson wrote: On 2006-04-01, at 0547, Rick Widmer wrote: What do you think about login | clogin | slogin? sounds good to me, as long as it's consistent and documented somewhere- both in README.vpopmaild and in the "vpopmaild" wiki entry. It will be. I was planning if you would li

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread Rick Widmer
Rick Widmer wrote: I haven't been able to access the SourceForge CVS server for the last two days. I think they may have changed the rules, and may have found what I need to do in the docs... which is what I was doing when I stopped to answer these messages. The answer from SourceForge: (

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-02, at 0809, Rick Widmer wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: So, a system only needing to validate credentials would just need to login and quit. Which is what slogin will do. You may not even have to quit. It could just return OK or ERROR, and exit. I'm not sure what John did, but he