[20827] in Athena Bugs
Re: clearcerts vs. clear-netscape-password, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Sep 27 13:42:13 2002
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200209271742.NAA13714@multics.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, web-agents@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
[ Feel free to add netscape-release back in if you like. ]
More thoughts on this.
After running both "clearcerts" and "clear-netscape-password"
together for someone who needed new certs for both Mozilla and Netscape:
It's problematic that they do not have parallel names.
I was going to run "zap-certificates," but I didn't want to
have to explain why the command for Mozilla was "clear" and Netscape
was "zap."
"clearcerts" does its work with no output at all.
"clear-netscape-passowrd" gives you some reasonable information
as to what it is doing. At the very least, you could say, "shit!
I didn't want to remove those, let's get them out of OldFiles.
"clearcerts"'s name is similarly problematic to
"clear-netscape-password", in that if a user accidently
adds a space ("clear certs"), they get no error, merely
a blank screen, which implies that _something_ has happened.
--jhawk
