Logging from the Sun Kerberos package?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Wed Jan 16 17:21:31 EST 2013


On 1/16/13 5:17 PM, "Douglas E. Engert" <deengert at anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>I thought that the Answer 1 in this:
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9738756/jaas-kerberos-login-exception-o
>n-wrong-username-password
>
>showed how to get the underlying exception:
>  Throwable t = e.getCause();
>  if (t instanceof KrbException) {
>And from there one could get
>  the error message from the t.getMessage();

I believe that is false. When I tried it all I got was null. It's not
really that important because knowing the type doesn't tell you anything
about what the error means to a user, and you don't need it to log, so it
isn't really helpful.

-- Scott




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