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(VS2) Version 6.0C: kinit only gives one exit status

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Thu Sep 15 15:21:27 1988

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 15:20:37 EDT
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version:	(VS2) Version 6.0C
System name:		binkley
What's wrong:

% kinit frep
MIT Project Athena (binkley)
Kerberos Initialization for "frep"
kinit: Principal unknown (kerberos)
Exit 1               kinit frep
% kinit eichin < /dev/null
[MIT Project Athena (binkley)
Kerberos Initialization for "eichin"

kinit: Password incorrect
Exit 1               kinit eichin < /dev/null


What should have happened:

There should be a seperate exit status number, since there are
different messages. This would make kinit useful in automatic scripts.

				Mark Eichin
			<eichin@athena.mit.edu>
		SIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker'' 

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