[Building Sakai] A recent outage caused by Kerberos upgrade.

Seth Theriault slt at columbia.edu
Wed Apr 28 14:38:40 PDT 2010


Lydia Li wrote:

> I guess we could change this single valued property to
> multi-valued property that includes old and new messages.

If you would like to provide a patch for this capability, we
could certainly check into it.

I did some further checking, and the root of all of this seems to
be Heimdal's custom message for this specific Kerberos error.
More specifically, MIT Kerberos and GNU Shishi appear to use the
RFC-standard message, while Heimdal has never used it (at least
according to the the git history).

In addition, I haven't been able to find a way other than parsing
the error message to detect what you want. I suppose you could
search for "(31)" in the message, but I don't use Heimdal so I am
not sure what string is returned by the LoginException.

Seth


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