[6380] in Athena Bugs
third party kerberos rcp fails
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Nov 12 10:44:42 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 10:44:15 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: mar@MIT.EDU
Cc: marc@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[6320]
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 11:05:09 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
Sender: mar@MIT.EDU
My point is that the program shouldn't try to do something that it
knows will fail. If we can't make it work the straightforward way,
either do a pair of copies through a temp file on the local machine,
or display a message saying that it can't do it. The current failure
mode make is look like I did something wrong.
As marc pointed out, rcp doesn't know it will fail -- you may have
kerberos tickets on the remote host in the default location, placed
there by rkinit or by a remote login, in which case it will succeed.
In any case, you're right, it isn't going to get fixed in krb4.
jik
