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

[Simon Josefsson]

Guillem Jover <address@hidden> writes:

>> * It seems that 'telnet' might not need to initialize Shishi at all,
>>   unless it will use a Kerberos connection.
>
> When I poked at the code, it seemed it was initializing all auth
> methods and trying them until one succeeded, which make sense having
> that in order of strongness.

I'm still investigating this part.

>> * The complaint is printed.
>
> As I said, I think this is important information for diagnosing why
> shishi might not be working (properly?), but one might not want to
> see it by default.

Right, I've changed so that the warning is a verbose messages.  It is
not an error to not have a Kerberos ticket.

>> * The directory is created.
>
> But by creating the directory it does not make the wanted file appear,
> which is the reason of the warning, and IMO in such case it just
> clutters the user home dir.

Creating the directory is required for reading the user configuration
file which will be stored there.  When the directory is created, a
sample configuration file is copied there too.

This is open to discussion, but as long as the directory isn't created
unless the user wants to use Kerberos, I don't see a problem in creating
the directory.

/Simon