From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051018 Epiphany/1.9.2 Description of problem: I am trying to write a shell script that does something if a Kerberos principal exists. However, kadmin makes it difficult to check if a principal exists. "kadmin -q 'getprinc foo'" exits with a code of "0" whether or not the principal exists. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): krb5-server-1.4.1-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: [root@golem scripts]# kadmin.local -q "getprinc foo" Authenticating as principal mike/admin with password. get_principal: Principal does not exist while retrieving "foo". [root@golem scripts]# echo $? 0 Actual Results: Exit status is always 0. Expected Results: I think the program should exist with a non-zero status code if a queried principal does not exist. Additional info:
After looking at the kadmin code, this does not seem to be as simple to implement as I thought it would be. However, I think this may still be a worthwhile feature. The bottom line is that it seems difficult to execute kerberos commands from a shell script and determine if they succeed or fail.