[krbdev.mit.edu #1441] kadmind fails to return wrong version errors for change password

Ezra Peisach via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Fri Apr 25 18:00:05 EDT 2003


[hartmans - Fri Apr 25 15:03:25 2003]:

> 
> 
> Apparently we share a bug with Microsoft in that our kadmind fails to
> return a wrong version error if it cannot understand the version of
> the change password protocol sent to it.  This is bad for backward
> compatability of new clients.
> 


As a gross hack - I notice that there is a formated string that is
returned to the client... We could match on that string to ascertain
that if we send a different protocol number, we get back a version 1 
and that message....



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