Bug#423944: /usr/bin/inetutils-telnet: Complains about ~/.shishi/tickets and creates ~/.shishi, for all connections

[Simon Josefsson]

Guillem Jover <address@hidden> writes:

> reassign 423944 libshishi0
> thanks
>
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:08:22 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> Package: inetutils-telnet
>> Version: 2:1.5.dfsg.1-4
>> Severity: normal
>> File: /usr/bin/inetutils-telnet
>> 
>> When using telnet for any connection, including those not involving Kerberos
>> in any way, telnet complains that ~/.shishi/tickets does not exist, and
>> creates ~/.shishi .
>
> The dot directory is created from inside libshishi, in
> lib/init.c (maybe_install_usercfg), I don't think it should be created
> from there. For the warning, that's useful information so that users
> can diagnose why shishi is not working if there's missing files, but
> probably would make sense to disable the output if not asked for,
> like in verbose mode or similar.

There may be multiple problems, that can have different solutions,
here.  For example:

* It seems that 'telnet' might not need to initialize Shishi at all,
  unless it will use a Kerberos connection.

* The complaint is printed.

* The directory is created.

I will look into if it is simple to make inetutils defer the call to
shishi_init until Kerberos is definitely needed.

Thoughts on the other problems appreciated.

Maybe the directory should simply be created, with no warning?

/Simon