kdc "status" - string or number

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Fri Feb 5 19:16:21 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:12:58AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I'm not talking about audit plugins.  I'm talking about things like
> preauth and authdata plugins.  They may potentially have errors that the
> designer of the KDC has never contemplated.  Having something like a
> numeric status as your only mechanism is very bad for debugging this use
> case.

Not that we can localize those messages either, since there's no
language tag negotiation in the KDC protocol.  Perhaps it's time to
introduce such a thing.

Nico
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