We had a vendor in at work recently to do some Proof of Concept work with us in our lab. One of the applications has a TON of command line options. While we ran it through a review process, it dawned on me that there should really exist a GUI Command Line Builder tool that lets the user select what options are needed and then the tool builds the command line. Something just like the AclEasy GUI for SetACL. Otherwise, if close attention was not paid to the command line options, someone could unintentionally cause issues to the environment.
So, it is my suggestion to application vendors to provide GUI tools with applications that have more than a handful of command line options or that utilize configuration files that contain more than a reasonable number of configuration settings.
Weigh in here and let me know what you think.
Edit: It appears that the ACLEasy tool is awol... I'll have to try to contact its author and see if we can post it here.
Published Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:40 PM by dthomson
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