KfW 3.1: Re-directed stderr of kinit/klist displays dialog

[Will Fiveash]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:14:14PM -0500, Rodney M Dyer wrote:
> 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.  :)

Works for me using native kinit on Solaris 10 and up.

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Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT)