Excerpts from mail: 8-Nov-95 Re: Bug in SGI's login? Steve
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> 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.
This makes me think about the following problem. Has anyone experienced
on an SGI with AFS installed the problem of using xdm to login as a
local user with no network? Things just hang until the network is
connected again. When I say "local user" I mean a non-AFS account with
local password and home directory. It seems like xdm is trying to check
the kerberos server for authentication but never times out while trying.
Without the AFS libraries in place, login proceeds normally whether the
network is up or not.
This makes it very hard to have an AFS client with local user accounts
that do not rely on the network. 'root' user must be a special case
since that works
This looks like a bug in the way SGI implemented xdm with kerberos
authentication.
Rob,
aka "xdmer"
