[Cvs-dev] Re: cvs-chpass.patch (former: cvs-passwd.patch)

[Prasad J Pandit]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> It seems to me it's better to keep them the same - Windows users will 
> normally be using wincvs/tortoisecvs which both use cvsnt.  Those users will 
> send the cvs passwd command... it seems to me that creating an entirely 
> different one will just confuse users.

  Exactly! I too thought the same way. But then changed it from 'passwd' 
to 'chpass', thinking that, as long as facility is provided to change the 
password, it doesn't matter much, what the name of the command is.


> OTOH I don't see the problem with supporting different feature sets 
> (providing the basic 'change my password' functionality works, and that 
> should be easy enough to arrange).

  Yeh, that's true.

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