[13615] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.7K: kinit and kdestroy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cat@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 28 20:34:00 1995
From: cat@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:33:45 -0400
To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: network@MIT.EDU
The problem with kinit promting for a password before giving the error
message that the principal is unknown is a known bug, and will be fixed.
The problem you reported with kdestroy is a problem of kdestroy being too
vague. The current relese of kinit gets the user both kerberos version 4
and kerberos version 5 tickets. If you only remove one of those ticket
files, it will report "tickets destroyed" because it sucessfully destroyed
the other ticket file. It does the correct thing if you remove both ticket
files.
Thank you for reporting these problems. We will do our best to fix them.
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>Subject: decmips 7.7K: kinit and kdestroy
>Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 12:06:20 EST
>
>System name: Paddington
>Type and version: KN02ca 7.7K (1 update(s) to same version)
>Display type: PMAGB-BA
>
>What were you trying to do?
> use kinit and kdestroy
>
>What's wrong:
> using kinit with an unknown principal used to provide
> immediate feedback as to whether the principal exists,
> now it issues a password prompt regardless of whether
> the principal exists.
>
> using kdestroy says tickets have been destroyed regardless
> of whether a ticket file existed.
>
>What should have happened:
> I supposed that's debatable but it's definitely a change
> in behavior and the change leads to delayed or
> suppressed information.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> Previous release behavior.
>
>NETPROB-NOTE:
>Note: cat Thu Jun 8 20:40:59 1995
>kdestroy reports when there are no tickets. Are there security issuse for
>kini asking for the password?
>
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