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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