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Subject: better grammar in telnet error message
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>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
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>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

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>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.
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>How-To-Repeat:
Telnet someplace and lose.

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>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) ||

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>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.

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>Unformatted:
closing; fixed on trunk.