Hi All, greetings. I am trying to get a kerberos ticket with the help of a perl script, so that it is automated. The script works in Redhat however in Suse, I am encountering problem, where the kinit process waits for user input, however the requirement is that it should not wait as I am writing the password to STDIN of the process. Here is my code, as I am quite new, I may have a wrong understanding. Any help would be most thankfull. ======This program is in Perl===== #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; open (WTR, "| kinit Administrator\@IN.CAL 2> error.txt"); print WTR "password\n"; print WTR "\n"; close WTR; ====== With a simple one liner echo "freevision" | klist Administrator@IN.CAL it works OK in MIT version of kinit, but stands still for user in put in Suse... regards Saneax