KfW 3.1: Re-directed stderr of kinit/klist displays dialog
Rodney M Dyer
rmdyer at uncc.edu
Tue Feb 20 23:14:14 EST 2007
At 10:24 PM 2/20/2007, Rodney M Dyer wrote:
>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.
Well it appears that I'm wrong now. Just testing this under Solaris and I
find that piping a password to kinit no longer works! In the intervening
years they must have fixed this. I politely retract my statement. :)
Rodney
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