Re: should not specify default group for users

[Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com>]

På 2000-Mar-22 klokka 23:58:19 -0800 skrivet H. Peter Anvin:

: Jim Knoble wrote:
: > A pedantic detail: No interactive questions.  [...] unless the user
: > requests it. [...]
: 
: ... unless you have an -i --interactive flag, like cp or rm.

True.  That's when the user requests the query.

: However, a number of utilities have -b --batch flags, which cause them
: to behave nicely in scripts.  I think this is an acceptable solution,
: since putting a flag in a script is less onerous than having to type it
: in when using interactively (or alias it.)

... unless the traditional or prior behavior of the program is never to
query, in which case existing scripts very likely don't expect it.  To
my knowledge, useradd has never queried for user input.

Again this is a pedantic detail, but the spec should probably not
require interactivity of utilities where it's not necessary or
practiced.

-- 
jim knoble
jmknoble@pobox.com