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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