[3102] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
krb5-admin/743: kadmin outputs "enter password" prompt to stdout instead of strerr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. Larry Lidz)
Tue Aug 31 16:28:14 1999
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:27:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "E. Larry Lidz" <ellidz@eridu.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: ellidz@eridu.uchicago.edu
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
>Number: 743
>Category: krb5-admin
>Synopsis: kadmin outputs "enter password" prompt to stdout instead of strerr
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: krb5-unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 31 16:28:01 EDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: E. Larry Lidz
>Organization:
uchi.comp.unix vi cabal
>Release: krb5-1.0.6
>Environment:
System: SunOS eridu 5.7 Generic_107605-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Architecture: sun4
>Description:
When kadmin is called the Enter Password prompt goes to standard out
instead of standard error. This is particularly a problem if stdout is
redirected.
For example, "kadmin -q listprincs * > principles" will put the "Enter
Password" prompt into principles. Furthermore, the user doesn't know
that they're being asked for their password.
>How-To-Repeat:
kadmin -q listprincs * > principles
will put the enter password prompt into princples instead of to the
user.
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
