[17833] in Athena Bugs
Re: clear-netscape-password is just dumb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri May 12 13:49:18 2000
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:49:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Not sure I understand the objection. Was the space in your example
accidental, or is the implication that people assume 'clear' is the
program/script and -netscape-password an argument? Seems to me the answer
there is to tell users it's all one word.
Even so, I agree that clear-netscape-password isn't a very clear
definition of what the script does. I'd rather call it zap-certificates
myself, making it clearer to the user that they're not just killing their
cert password, but all their certs as well.
Anyone else got any comments? I can make a symlink in a jiffy.
-Todd
On Thu, 11 May 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Today is about the 5th time I've seen someone be told this on the phone
> and run
>
> athena% clear -netscape-password
>
> and get no error and have the phone support people (eg. sipb) get
> terribly confused when it doesn't help.
>
> The naming of this script was just bad.
>
> Please select a new name for clear-netscape-password and
> publicize it.
>
> I vaguely proposee "zap-netscape-password" though I'm not particularly
> attached to it.
>
> --jhawk
>
