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Old 03-26-2010
Change password prompt format
Hello,
I installed Kerberos on Red Hat. My testing tool checks for the prompt when user log-in. Unfortunately I don't have access to that testing tool so I have to fix somehow the prompt.
My testing tool expects this format:
Code:
login: XYZ  
Password:

When I installed Kerberos I have this format:
Code:
login: XYZ
Password for XYZ:

Could anybody help me to figure out how to fix it? Does it exist any Kerberos configuration file which control this format?
thanks in advance
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 03-30-2010 at 04:34 PM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 03-26-2010
I am not running Kerberos, but it is likely that the "Password for [username]:" format is hard coded into the kerberos programs.

To confirm this, I grabbed the source code from MIT for version 1.8 and there are several places in the files that contain an "snprintf" statement issuing a line in this format.

Also, there are a number of expect scripts in the included tests subdirectory that are expecting the password prompt to be issued as "Password for [username]:".

I think you could recode the source and recompile, but that might have a negative impact on the operation of the kerberos suite.
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