Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 09:50:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: marcel@xcllnt.net Subject: Re: SRA login failed -- bug? Message-ID: <200205201650.g4KGoXQ21981@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20020519205152.GA17093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20020519205152.GA17093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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In article <20020519205152.GA17093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote: > I sometimes cannot get passed SRA secure login, even though credentials > are given correctly: > > Connected to athlon.pn.xcllnt.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > Trying SRA secure login: > User (marcel): > Password: > [ SRA login failed ] > : > (repeat last 3 lines -- Ad nauseam) > > The problem is not a faulty password or username, but appears to be > something that behaves much the same as uninitialized variables. > Most of the time SRA secure login works ok, but it does occasionally > reject the login. It is not possible to login at all when SRA rejects > a login. It's a permanent state and the only way around it is to > ^C and re-telnet, which BTW occasionally fails as well... > > I haven't seen anything on this topic, so I'd like to hear if > others are experiencing this as well and if this is a security > "feature", a bug or misconfiguration. Yes, I see this sometimes too, even in -stable. I agree with your conjecture -- it acts like there's an uninitialized variable that sometimes starts out with an unworkable value. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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