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

[petesea@bigfoot.com]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rodney M Dyer wrote:

> 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 problem is I want to capture the error message so I have some clue why 
the command failed.

> I think it is a bug because there's nothing wrong with writing stderr to 
> a file.

I agree.

> 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),

Ok.. that's fine, but I'm not talking about re-directing stdin, I'm only 
talking about re-directing stderr.