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

[Lydia Li]

Seth Theriault wrote:
> 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.
>   

The message in Heimdal's case is actually :

msg = Pre-authentication information was invalid (24)

So they even changed the error code! 


thanks,
Lydia

> Seth
>