hi again,
sorry for asking without experimenting first. and doubly so for replying
to my own message.
for the archives' sake, just wanted to say: i just blew away the nvram
echo blah > /dev/sdC0/nvram
then rebooted the system; respecified auth information when prompted.
then used auth/changeuser to reset passwords for bootes and myself
i'd hate to do it for hundreds of users but it did the trick for me.
best,
-sean
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:24:59 -0400, Sean Caron <[email protected]> wrote:
hi folks,
i needed to change my password today. i logged in to my plan 9 box using
drawterm
and used 'passwd' to change the password for my account, scaron, and got
on the
system console and used 'passwd' to change the password for bootes.
didn't get any errors when changing the password; it all seemed to 'take'
now, when i connect to my system via drawterm and log in, i get
something like
this:
user: scaron
[email protected] password: ((type it))
\n : server says: cpu: srvauth: auth_proxy rpc write: ((garbage))
goodbye
or some variant on this. then it drops me. it seems to be exhibiting
this behaviour
for both my user and the bootes user with 100% consistency.
looks like a buffer overflow somewhere.
nothing changed besides my password and that of the bootes user.
this system hasn't pull'd any updates in a while (maybe like a year..)
is there anything i can do to rescue this or do i just need to blow the
system
away and start over?
thanks,
-sean
