[26133] in Athena Bugs
kinit vs /mit/java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Liana Lareau)
Sat Oct 16 00:54:51 2004
Message-Id: <200410160454.i9G4sH3X015124@multics.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:54:17 -0700
From: Liana Lareau <fyfer@mit.edu>
cc: fyfer@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Hello,
The recent change to java on Athena is causing a slight problem: it
has kinit, klist, etc binaries that don't actually work and confuse
things when I try to renew, since /mit/java is at the beginning of my
path.
Of course, I put java at the beginning of my path, so it's doing what
it's supposed to (and I can fix the problem easily). But, I suspect
this will confuse a lot of users (for instance, I think back in the
day 6.170 students were told to 'add -f java').
The message is:
fyfer@multics:~ > renew
There doesn't appear to be an executable called kinit for java
version 1.4.2_05 on this platform. If you think that this program should
run, try attaching the version-specific locker explicitly and then
restart kinit. To do this type
add -f java_v1.4.2_05
kinit
If that still fails, either Athena does not support kinit on this
platform, there is a file server failure, or a problam with the local
workstation. You may want to contact OLC to find out more information.
One suggestion from the friendly denizens of -c help was that perhaps
the kerberos utilities in the new java version should be renamed so they
don't conflict.
-Liana
