The following reply was made to PR system/6431; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Okan Demirmen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: system/6431: SKEY stops working after some logins Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:51:35 -0500 On Sun 2010.07.18 at 12:15 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > >Number: 6431 > >Category: system > >Synopsis: SKEY stops working after some logins > >Confidential: yes > >Severity: serious > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: bugs > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: unknown > >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 18 10:30:01 GMT 2010 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: > >Release: > >Organization: > >Environment: > System : OpenBSD 4.7 > Details : OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC.MP) #130: Wed Mar 17 20:48:50 MDT > 2010 > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64 > Machine : amd64 > >Description: > After about 20 logins or so my SKEY login stopped working. Having > tried multiple dozen times to login it wouldn't work. So I made a testuser > and luckily on the second login it didn't work either but I see no > correllation between the two. A second testuser didn't seem to have a > problem getting through 5 logins or more. Hi, I've been unable to reproduce this behavior. Are you 100% sure the passphrase is being entered correctly? Even if you put in a bogus passphrase, skey will happily provide you with one-time passwords, though they will be invalid. Can you re-validate your findings? Cheers.
