On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Peter Mueller wrote:
It doesnt' look for /usr/vice/etc - it looks for the authentication
libraries. As long as the authentication libraries are there, the SGI
login package tries to do AFS authentication.
So if you were to move the libraries in /usr/vice/etc, the problem would
stop. The implementation on the SGI is different than the other systems
in that all of this is automatic and you don't have to replace the login
program.
> Hi, >
> I've tried to install AFS 3.4beta on one of our
> SGI 5.3 machines and run into some trouble. A side
> effect of the trouble was, that /usr/vice/etc was
> not complete (no ThisCell and CellServDB file).
>
> This machine was configured to be an AFS 3.3a machine
> however, every configuration file (afsclient, afsserver
> and afsml) was set "off". Thus, I assume, that there
> is *no* AFS functionality on the machine.
>
> Well, when invoking rlogin it runs into an "internal
> failure: ta_rauth" which is very strange, since AFS is
> configured to be off ...
>
> The problem could be solved by providing ThisCell and
> CellServDB in directory /usr/vice/etc.
>
> To sum up: I believe this is a bug in SGI's login
> program which does check for /usr/vice/etc and assumes
> that this indicates the machine to be an AFS machine.
> It would be better to check the configuration flags.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Mueller
>
Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
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