[2165] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: rlogin bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Aug 19 14:12:36 1996
To: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Aug 1996 14:12:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Barry Jaspan"'s message of Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:35:22 -0400
>>>>> "cBarry" == "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU> writes:
cBarry> * The unable to convert to krb4 tickets message is a
cBarry> bit confusing if you don't realize what is going on.
cBarry> Perhaps rewording to a warning or notice would be
cBarry> appropriate--to make it clear that it may not be an error.
cBarry> I'm not even sure there should be a warning. A site that
cBarry> doesn't want to acquire V4 tickets on every login should
cBarry> be warned that it didn't happen every time; this is just
cBarry> going to end up like "Warning: No Kerberos tickets
cBarry> obtained" that lasted for years and confused a lot of
cBarry> people, except this warning would be even less useful.
Well, if they want it to go away totally, they can turn off
ticket conversion in krb5.conf.Perhaps not printing to the user, but
syslogging would be better?
