[18896] in Athena Bugs
telnet 'authentication has failed' message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
Mon Apr 9 01:05:13 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:01:34 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200104090501.BAA10571@mattababy.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
To: bugs@mit.edu
This may seem petty, but the grammar of the following message has been
bugging me for the past two and a half years, and I've finally seen it one
time too many:
Authentication negotiation has failed, which is required for
encryption.
This makes it sound as if the failure of authentication negotiation is
requisite for encryption -- exactly the opposite of the intended meaning.
As a fix, I propose the following wording:
Negotiation of authentication, which is required for encryption,
has failed.
