From zacheiss@MIT.EDU Mon Apr 9 23:58:30 2001 Received: from fort-point-station.mit.edu (FORT-POINT-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.72.0.53]) by rt-11.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA17938 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:58:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sweet-transvestite.mit.edu (SWEET-TRANSVESTITE.MIT.EDU [18.18.1.157]) by fort-point-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA08766; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:58:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from zacheiss@localhost) by sweet-transvestite.mit.edu (8.9.3) id XAA08791; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200104100358.XAA08791@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:58:25 -0400 (EDT) From: zacheiss@MIT.EDU Reply-To: zacheiss@MIT.EDU To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU Cc: zacheiss@MIT.EDU Subject: better grammar in telnet error message X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.99 >Number: 939 >Category: krb5-appl >Synopsis: better grammar in telnet error message >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: raeburn >State: feedback >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: unknown >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 9 23:59:01 EDT 2001 >Last-Modified: Tue May 1 18:40:29 EDT 2001 >Originator: Garry Zacheiss >Organization: Garry Zacheiss >Release: krb5-1.1.1 >Environment: System: SunOS sweet-transvestite.mit.edu 5.7 Generic_106541-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 Architecture: sun4 >Description: The error message: "Authentication negotiation has failed, which is required for encryption." is poorly phrased; it makes it sound like the failure of authentication negotiation is required for encryption. >How-To-Repeat: Telnet someplace and lose. >Fix: Apply this patch. --- telnet.c Mon Apr 9 23:54:45 2001 +++ telnet.c.new Mon Apr 9 23:46:26 2001 @@ -2317,8 +2317,8 @@ Exit(1); } if (auth_has_failed) { - printf("\nAuthentication negotation has failed, which is required for\n"); - printf("encryption. Good bye.\n\r"); + printf("\nNegotiation of authentication, which is required for encryption,\n"); + printf("has failed. Good bye.\n\r"); Exit(1); } if (my_want_state_is_dont(TELOPT_ENCRYPT) || >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: krb5-unassigned->raeburn Responsible-Changed-By: raeburn Responsible-Changed-When: Tue May 1 18:31:23 2001 Responsible-Changed-Why: I'll take it... State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback State-Changed-By: raeburn State-Changed-When: Tue May 1 18:39:42 2001 State-Changed-Why: A variation of this patch ("good-bye" should be hyphenated, according to webster) will be in the 1.3 release. >Unformatted: