Package: krb5-user
Version: 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
The manpage for ksu(1) contains the following:
-D turn on debug mode.
This naively leads one to expect that passing -D to ksu enables
debugging. Unfortunately, it only does so if ksu was compiled with
-DDEBUG - not the Debian default.
To make matters worse, if it has not been compiled with that
flag, it instead throws a usage message:
% ksu -D
Usage: ksu [target user] [-n principal] [-c source cachename] [-k] [-D]
[-r time] [-pf] [-l lifetime] [-zZ] [-q] [-e command [args... ] ] [-a
[args... ] ]
Note, however, that it doesn't say that '-D' is an invalid option
(indeed, it lists it in the usage) - compare the output with, for
example, 'ksu -X':
% ksu -X
ksu: invalid option -- 'X'
Usage: ksu [target user] [-n principal] [-c source cachename] [-k] [-D]
[-r time] [-pf] [-l lifetime] [-zZ] [-q] [-e command [args... ] ] [-a
[args... ] ]
This can lead to confusion, and it takes reading the source to verify
why it is not working as expected.
It would be nice if the manpage made it clear that -D was only available
if compiled with the debug option. It would also be good if ksu could
throw the 'invalid option' message and not list -D if it hasn't been
compiled with debugging enabled.
Many thanks,
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500,
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages krb5-user depends on:
ii krb5-config 2.3
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u8
ii libcomerr2 1.42.5-1.1+deb7u1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libgssrpc4 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libk5crypto3 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libkadm5clnt-mit8 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libkadm5srv-mit8 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libkdb5-6 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libkeyutils1 1.5.5-3+deb7u1
ii libkrb5-3 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libkrb5support0 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3
ii libss2 1.42.5-1.1+deb7u1
krb5-user recommends no packages.
krb5-user suggests no packages.
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