Re: adduser command: give feedback about success

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:55:53PM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> I propose to add this feedback.  This needs a few simple changes in 
> Zope2/utilities, Zope2/Startup, AccessControl, 
> Products.PluggableAuthService, and a few doctest fixes in Products.Five. 
>   The change to Zope2/utilities/adduser.py would be this:
> 
> ===================================================================
> -    adduser(app, user, pwd)
> +    result = adduser(app, user, pwd)
> +    if result:
> +        print "User %s created." % user
> +    else:
> +        print "Got no result back. User creation may have failed."
> +        print "Maybe the user already exists and nothing is done then."
> +        print "Or the implementation does not give info when it succeeds."

I don't suppose you could somehow change the API so the script can
report something useful?  "I don't even know if I succeeded or not"
sounds pretty pathetic.

Maybe it's better than surly silence.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3/BlueBream consulting and development

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