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Re: Patch to make 'ldapmodify -WW' read password from stdin



On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> 
> - ldapmodify & go on with no password if reading the password file
>   failed.  Tell me if you want them to exit() instead in that case.

I think it should exit. It has failed to do something that you wanted
and detecting the consequences later could be very much harder.

> - I do not know if Windows NT has fstat(), so I set HAVE_FSTAT to
>   undef in portable.nt.  (fstat() is used to warn if the file is
>   publicly readable or writeable.)

Even if it does, it is highly unlikely that tests based on st_mode
will mean anything on NT. Come to think of it, most modern Unix
variants now support ACLs which also make this sort of test much
harder to do 'properly'.

Andrew
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