Re: linux-ipsec: consistent command syntax

> From: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
> It has exactly one positional parameter ("new esp" is one parameter).
Wow. Someday, I'll look at the your code to see how you managed to get getopt to parse it as one parameter....

> If end users end up having to use ipsecadm or some similar tool to
In most places, for Linux and *BSD, the end user _is_ the administrator.

It is my hope and intent that Security be used by millions and (eventually) billions of people, not merely hundreds of people.

Are there any others than Angelos that would prefer _not_ to improve the UI? Or maybe other suggestions to _improve_ it?

For example, it has been suggested privately that an answer to the argument over having more than 1 positional parameter would be to make -ah <spi> and -esp <spi> options, but require that they be mutually exclusive and the first option specified, yielding the same result as my syntax. (I'm not that fond of the idea, but I could live with it -- it has the potential for added flexibility on list, delete, etc....) Is this something other folks would like?

WSimpson@UMich.edu

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