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Re: sun4 9.1.14: kpasswd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Aug 16 11:54:18 2002

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Laura Baldwin <boojum@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:52, Laura Baldwin wrote:
> kpasswd: KADM error code 16 while attempting to change password.

kpasswd was using the wrong error table.  ("KADM error code 16" is
actually a message from the wrong error table, not a message generated
by com_err.)

>      Rumor (on -c help) has it there's an error table which would
>      cause it to say "Communication failure with server" instead.

"Could not connect to server", actually.

I've submitted fixes for this and two other error-reporting problems,
and they should go into the 9.1.15 patch release.


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