[5001] in testers
Renew Authentication menu option
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Mon Jul 16 02:40:13 2001
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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:40:10 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Currently, the Foot->Utilities->Renew Authentication menu option runs
/usr/athena/share/gnome/athena/menus/../tmp/renew.sh, which opens a
gnome-terminal, prints a message, and does the equivalent of renew.
Why is it doing that rather than grenew? I just ran grenew and will certify
that at least in the simple case of expired tickets and tokens with dozens of
added lockers, it works. If we are going to use the script for some reason,
it probably doesn't want to be in a tmp directory and should be fixed since
currently the '\n's print in the terminal.
By the way, do we really want asterisks to appear for the password in grenew?
I won't fight against it since I understand it'll make some users more
confident that it's working, but if the only reason is that users might think
it's dead, remember that they're used to seeing the cursor do nothing in a
text box in xlogin and when typing renew.
Mitch
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