The idea is to not complain about problems in the default ticket file if we couldn't read it, because the client would be able to tell if it's there or not, and we're implicitly letting the client tell us where it is. Still needs work, I think. --- krb5/src/clients/ksu/ccache.c +++ krb5/src/clients/ksu/ccache.c @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ krb5_error_code krb5_ccache_copy (contex cc_def_name = krb5_cc_get_name(context, cc_def); cc_other_name = krb5_cc_get_name(context, *cc_other); - if ( ! stat(cc_def_name, &st_temp)){ + if ( ! access(cc_def_name, R_OK) && ! stat(cc_def_name, &st_temp)){ if((retval = krb5_get_nonexp_tkts(context,cc_def,&cc_def_creds_arr))){ return retval; } --- krb5/src/clients/ksu/heuristic.c +++ krb5/src/clients/ksu/heuristic.c @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ krb5_error_code find_either_ticket (cont cc_source_name = krb5_cc_get_name(context, cc); - if ( ! stat(cc_source_name, &st_temp)){ + if ( ! access(cc_source_name, F_OK | R_OK) && ! stat(cc_source_name, &st_temp)){ retval = find_ticket(context, cc, client, end_server, &temp_found); if (retval) @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ krb5_error_code get_best_princ_for_targe cc_source_name = krb5_cc_get_name(context, cc_source); - if (! stat(cc_source_name, &st_temp)) { + if (! access(cc_source_name, F_OK | R_OK) && ! stat(cc_source_name, &st_temp)) { retval = krb5_cc_get_principal(context, cc_source, &cc_def_princ); if (retval) return retval; --- krb5/src/clients/ksu/main.c +++ krb5/src/clients/ksu/main.c @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ main (argc, argv) if ( strchr(cc_source_tag, ':')){ cc_source_tag_tmp = strchr(cc_source_tag, ':') + 1; - if( stat( cc_source_tag_tmp, &st_temp)){ + if( access( cc_source_tag_tmp, F_OK | R_OK) || stat( cc_source_tag_tmp, &st_temp)){ com_err(prog_name, errno, _("while looking for credentials file %s"), cc_source_tag_tmp);