Received: from pch.mit.edu (PCH.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.90]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.12.9) with ESMTP id l739E6HW005447; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:14:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pch.mit.edu (pch.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l739E1aE006298; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:14:01 -0400 Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.80]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l739Dxq1006291 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:13:59 -0400 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l739DuUu004804; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:13:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [69.25.196.101] (laptop.raeburn.org [69.25.196.101]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l739CArr011178 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:13:55 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-ID: <17F960AC-8527-4357-8E85-57AEF6EEE68D@mit.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ken Raeburn Subject: kpropd fails to respond with an error indication if kdb5_util fails Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:13:51 -0400 To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Scanned-BY: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Beenthere: krb5-bugs-incoming@mailman.mit.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Sender: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.MIT.EDU Errors-To: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.MIT.EDU X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 455 (See recent messages on kerberos@mit from Le Trung Kien.) If various errors happen while receiving the data from kprop, kpropd can return a krb5_error message to kprop describing the problem. However, if "kdb5_util load" fails, the kpropd process simply exits without sending anything back, causing kpropd to report "software caused connection abort" or some such. It should instead send back a message indicating that kdb5_util failed. Ken