KfW 3.1: Re-directed stderr of kinit/klist displays dialog
Rodney M Dyer
rmdyer at uncc.edu
Tue Feb 20 22:24:31 EST 2007
At 11:43 PM 2/19/2007, petesea at bigfoot.com wrote:
>Is there a way to redirect stderr from kinit/klist to a file?
I think it is simply a bug in the prompter code. I saw this problem a few
years ago and was annoyed, and just worked without the error string by using...
kinit username || (
echo failed.
exit /b 1
)
The double pipe means "on error" in Windows command shell. This is the
same as just reading the errorlevel code as a boolean (true/false). You
could do the opposite where "&&" means "on success"...
kinit username && (
echo Success.
exit /b 0
)
I think it is a bug because there's nothing wrong with writing stderr to a
file.
The MIT people simply don't want you to be able to pipe in a password to
kinit via "stdin", which is the right security practice (in security
circles), however they are rather flippant about it, because they allow it
under Unix. If they feel like holding a hard line, then they should nix
the 'nix stdin too.
Sorry Jeffrey, still rubbing it in. ;-)
Rodney
Rodney M. Dyer
Operations and Systems (Specialist)
Mosaic Computing Group
William States Lee College of Engineering
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