Ticket History #15: kadmin's getdate is confusing

From bjaspan@MIT.EDU Tue Sep 24 16:20:13 1996
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kadmin uses getdate to parse dates. The way it handles integers is
very confusing for users. It also happens to parse single letters as
military timezones, so "10h" will parse but mean something very
unexpected. We need to figure out a less confusing solution.




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Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Sep 24 16:42:08 1996
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From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: gnats@rt-11.MIT.EDU
Cc: Subject: Re: krb5-admin/15: [rsalz@osf.org: Re: maxlife (was Re: Bug fix: kdc.conf not being read)]
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:52:30 -0400

From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:49:10 -0400
To: bjaspan@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: maxlife (was Re: Bug fix: kdc.conf not being read)

The problem is relative dates. Snarf the getdate.y from INN if you
want a stripped-down version. Or I could give you something that
only took relative dates. Or, snarf the sendmail "10h30m" time parser.

From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: bjaspan@MIT.EDU
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: krb5-admin/15: kadmin's getdate is confusing
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:55:17 -0400

Another way that getdate is confusing is that if you enter an absolute
date, such as "11/30/96", DST changes are applied so that the actual
value that gets set may be, for example, 11pm 11/29/96. Example:

kadmin.local: modprinc -pwexpire "11/30/96" testuser
Principal "testuser@SECURE-TEST.OV.COM" modified.
kadmin.local: getprinc testuser
Principal: testuser@SECURE-TEST.OV.COM
Expiration date: Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1996
Last password change: Tue Oct 08 11:49:38 EDT 1996
Password expiration date: Fri Nov 29 23:00:00 EST 1996
[ remainder deleted ]

From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: bjaspan@MIT.EDU
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: krb5-admin/15: kadmin's getdate is confusing
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:49:27 -0400

I checked in a change to getdate.y to make it less confusing. Plain
integers are no longer accepted as a date specifiction, and military
time zones (a-z) are no longer recognized (otherwise something like
"10h" is parsed but means something very unexpected).

I'm not sure this is the final solution to the problem, though.

From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Barry Jaspan <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: krb5-admin/15: kadmin's getdate is confusing
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 14:38:03 -0500

`Theodore Y. Ts'o' made changes to this PR.

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*** 17,23 ****
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! >Priority: low

Per meeting on Friday.

Responsible-Changed-From-To: bjaspan->krb5-unassigned
Responsible-Changed-By: mdh
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jun 23 21:49:53 1998
Responsible-Changed-Why:

bjaspan no longer works on kerberos

From bjaspan@MIT.EDU Tue Sep 24 16:24:06 1996
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kadmin uses getdate to parse dates. The way it handles integers is
very confusing for users. It also happens to parse single letters as
military timezones, so "10h" will parse but mean something very
unexpected. We need to figure out a less confusing solution.




Responsible-Changed-From-To: hartmans->bjaspan
Responsible-Changed-By: bjaspan
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Sep 24 16:43:09 1996
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State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: bjaspan
State-Changed-When: Wed Sep 25 15:23:10 1996
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Duplicate of krb5-admin/15.