Bug 1474434 - --username not valid on command line or in rcfile, contrary to documentation
Summary: --username not valid on command line or in rcfile, contrary to documentation
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: samba
Version: 25
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
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Assignee: Anoop C S
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-24 15:18 UTC by Tom Killian
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:20:29 UTC
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Description Tom Killian 2017-07-24 15:18:54 UTC
Description of problem:

"man smbget" documents the long option --username but "smbget --help" calls it "--user".  The latter is correct.  Similarly, "user" is the parameter name that must appear in an rcfile.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

4.4.14-0.fc24.x86_64

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. smbget --username=xyzzy%rosebud smb://example.com/some_flounder

Actual results:
--username=xyzzy%rosebud: unknown option

Expected results:
Using workgroup SAMBA, user xyzzy

Additional info:
"username" used to be correct, some versions ago.  Only the man page is affected, I think.

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