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Re: change in kinit? is this one that will go away?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 3 17:48:17 1995
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:47:14 -0500
To: carla@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> It used to be that if you typed
>
> "kinit asdfghjk" and then hit return it would say right away
> "Principal unknown". Now it asks for a password before it tells you
> that the principal is unknown.
>
> Is that a change that'll go away also?
This is a side-effect of adding the Kerberos 5 support into kinit,
which is not cleanly "fixable." So,
> we should be prepared to tell people about this change.
:)
People can just do "kinit asdfghjk" and hit return for the password to
get the message now instead to verify asdfghjk isn't a real account.
At least, until someone chooses that username.
Craig
