On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:14:14PM -0500, Rodney M Dyer wrote: > At 10:24 PM 2/20/2007, Rodney M Dyer wrote: > >The MIT people simply don't want you to be able to pipe in a password to > >kinit via "stdin", which is the right security practice (in security > >circles), however they are rather flippant about it, because they allow it > >under Unix. If they feel like holding a hard line, then they should nix > >the 'nix stdin too. > > Well it appears that I'm wrong now. Just testing this under Solaris and I > find that piping a password to kinit no longer works! In the intervening > years they must have fixed this. I politely retract my statement. :)
Works for me using native kinit on Solaris 10 and up. -- Will Fiveash Sun Microsystems Inc. Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT) ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos