[Adduser-devel] Bug#516285: Bug#516285: It seems to accept anything for 'yes'
Stephen Gran
sgran at debian.org
Fri Feb 20 13:40:09 UTC 2009
This one time, at band camp, Enrico Zini said:
> Is the information correct? [Y/n] p
> pico:/# adduser enrico
> adduser: The user `enrico' already exists.
> pico:/#
>
> Apparently, it was happy to take 'p' for a yes.
Since the default is 'yes', the code only looks to see if you've
actively negated the action. I think, while perhaps slightly silly,
this is ultimately correct.
Cheers,
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