Jeffrey Altman

@iboukris My preference is merge the refactoring commit as-is so its easier to see what the actual change in behavior is meant to be. Please update the commit message for...

Why a password stored in a file instead of a keytab?

Whose password is in the proposed file? Based upon the example you provided it would be the password of the Kerberos administrator and not new password for the "`cpw --password=...

The password for the principal being changed is the `cpw --password=` parameter. If you specify it as a parameter to cpw then you don't get prompted for it.

`[root@bethlehem ~]# cat > kfile` `cpw --password=$$$$$$$$ bad.principal` `[root@bethlehem ~]# kadmin -l < kfile` `kadmin: cpw bad.principal: Principal does not exist`

@SimonWilkinson wrote: With 0c0ac807c18bec2af4323894e299520b026aa781 and no KRB5CCNAME set, and running "kinit" from a remote shell session, I get "kinit: resolving credentials cache: No credentials cache file found"

Binaries delivered on Big Sur are not from this project. Apple forked years ago. > On Apr 20, 2021, at 4:41 PM, habazut ***@***.***) ***@***.***> wrote: > >  >...

@rnagy Which operating system are you observing the problem?

@rnagy Thank you for the code extraction. res_search() returns -1 on failure but doesn't indicate why it failed. Even 'h_errno' isn't all that useful. The caller can't know if the...

But here is the underlying problem With the bogus nameserver entry - res_search() returns -1 - h_errno equals TRY_AGAIN - errno equals ETIMEDOUT These are not fatal errors. In particular,...