[17544] in Athena Bugs
Re: bug in `pts' command-line processing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
Sun Feb 13 21:58:51 2000
To: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: kcr@MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
Date: 13 Feb 2000 21:58:45 -0500
In-Reply-To: chad brown's message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:52:22 -0500"
Message-ID: <uusn1p4zdzu.fsf@EMACS-MAKES-A-COMPUTER-SLOW.MIT.EDU>
That's documented behavior when one of the arguments can be repeated,
isn't it?
kcr
chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Using pts from the afsuser locker, on inf.mit.edu (an 8.3.25 sun):
>
> ; pts createu -help
> Usage: pts createuser -name <user name>+ [-id <user id>+] [-cell <cell name>] [-noauth ] [-test ] [-force ] [-help ]
>
> ; pts createu golem.root 71468 sipb.mit.edu
> pts: Permission denied ; unable to create user golem.root with id 71468
>
> Marc verified that it failed for him as well, but that it worked for
> him if he explicitly used `-c sipb.mit.edu' instead of relying on the
> positional parameters.
>
> This is typical of old bugs in AFS cli tools, but I didn't know if it
> had been reported recently.
>
> chad
