[292] in Kerberos
Re: misparsable/ambiguous error message
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 20 14:48:44 1987
From: srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I think error messages should be as fine grained as possible. If the
ticket file is locked, and we can determine that, we should state
that in the message. Ticket granting ticket expired, unknown realm,
time out-of-sync with kerberos, non-existent ticket file, etc, should
all have different error messages; it makes tracking down errors
much easier. With the current software, the only way of tracking down
what "Can't get credentials" means is using dbx on the kerberos library.
-stan
