Received: from fort-point-station.mit.edu (FORT-POINT-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.76]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3p2) with ESMTP id VAA01625; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:06:55 -0400 (EDT) From: petesea@bigfoot.com Received: from mit.edu (M24-004-BARRACUDA-1.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.111]) by fort-point-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k8Q16loe020806 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:06:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mit.edu (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9F453131885 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:06:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gort.home.org ([64.236.208.28]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J6600AYGDR7ZXZ3@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for kfw-bugs@mit.edu; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:06:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from oberon.home.org (oberon [192.168.0.5]) by gort.home.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k8Q16gl15765 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:06:42 -0700 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:06:23 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Subject: Kfw: kinit doesn't accept windows path to keytab file X-X-Sender: pete@gort.home.org To: kfw-bugs@mit.edu Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: 0.55 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-BY: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 507 The kinit included with KfW doesn't seem to like a Windows path to a keytab file. eg: kinit -kt d:\my\path\to\keytab.file It seems to be OK with a Windows path as long as it includes UNIX forward (/) slashes, but it doesn't like a drive letter. So... while this appears to work: kinit -kt /my/path/to/keytab.file this won't kinit -kt d:/my/path/to/keytab.file It would preferable if it accepted either forward (/) or backward (\) slashes... but it really needs to accept a drive letter.