[4504] in Athena Bugs
Re: zwgc error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Mon Mar 12 13:42:32 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 13:31:22 EST
From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
To: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: Barr3y Jaspan <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
I beg to differ, the error message spewed is not
understandable to all, or even hackers unless you
know that it is due to a kerberos authentification
error. The messages does not even refer to where it
came from... Error detection is fine, and when a solution
is known, then let the user know... It can be considered
error correction.
When you write systems for people, then deal with them
as people. Not everyone has sources under hand, nor
is this error message documented in the man page.
pasc
