Originally Posted by
BayTalker
I assume I did the right thing.
That's up to you. Seeing that there was no terminal dump, it's hard to say you did the wrong thing. There is a chance, albeit small, that a terminal dump would have been "necessary" if you had not done what you did.
Originally Posted by
BayTalker
I also hope this is not common place.

Why not? The biggest threat presented by a failure to check IDs is the threat of a terminal dump.