Are you using kerberos on the backend?
Liam
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Michael Ghen <mikeg...@brandeis.edu>
wrote:
> Thanks Liam,
>
> I am not using the passwd directive. Will using it resolve this issue?
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Liam Hoekenga <li...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> The man page for cosign.conf explains the "Unable to connect to guest
>> account database" error:
>>
>> The keyword passwd is used to control password based
>> authentication of
>> a user using the Kerberos and MySQL internal authenticators. Where
>> this
>> keyword is not specified, usernames containing an ’@’ are
>> authenticated
>> through mysql, all other usernames are authenticated with Kerberos.
>>
>> Are you using the "passwd" directive in your cosign.conf?
>> If so, what do the entries look like?
>>
>> Liam
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Michael Ghen <mikeg...@brandeis.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> My name is Mike and I work at Brandeis University where we use Cosign.
>>> Recently, we've noticed that when a user enters their username with @
>>> brandeis.edu at the end, they recieve this error: "Unable to connect to
>>> guest account database."
>>>
>>> We're trying to remove this error so that user can still sign in but
>>> we're unsure about where it is generated. We think that cosign is appending
>>> "@brandeis.edu" before it looks up the account which would make the
>>> username have "...@brandeis....@brandeis.edu." We could not find
>>> anything in the configuration files to suggest that is the case. While we
>>> explore other options, I figured I would reach out for help from the Cosign
>>> community. If anyone has any suggestions or can offer any guidance, please
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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