On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:30:08PM -0400, John Mort wrote: > I got an interesting error message after failing to enter the correct > password for an account on a vm I was messing around with: > Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password). > > What is gssapi-with-mic? >
GSSAPI is "Generic security services API". MIC usually refers to Michael Countermeasures, a crypto replay attack prevention mechanism (also used, poorly, in WPA wifi networks) In this context, I'd guess gssapi is used for kerberos/ldap/something like that (or maybe just the pam interface) -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Supercollider Programming: The art of debugging your program by letting it crash and looking at what remains.
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