[289] in Kerberos
Re: misparsable/ambiguous error message
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Sat Dec 19 18:21:42 1987
To: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@BITSY.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 18 Dec 87 23:31:17 -0500.
From: Win Treese <treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Actually this whole message is bogus. The problem (correct me
> if I am wrong, Jerry) was that your ticket granting ticket had
> expired. I see no mention of that fact in the error message. In fact
> the message itself conveys very little information (beside the obvious
> "something spazzed" to anyone but a kerberos guru, who having studied
> at the prescribed oracles knows what the message can fortell!).
Jeff is right, there's a real error message problem here. There are actually
two problems:
1) nfsid isn't being very friendly. It's got serious problems with error
messages, and those I will take care of fixing. But,
2) the Kerberos library error messages aren't very helpful, either.
In the error message original sent by Jerry:
nfsid: can't find ticket (get credentials) (for instance paris realm
Athena.MIT.EDU)
The "can't find ticket (get_credentials)" is from the Kerberos library table
of error messages, and the rest is supplied by nfsid. The Kerberos error
in this case isn't always clear, either.
- Win
