Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:21:25 +0100 From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: telnet "SRA secure login" fails intermittently Message-ID: <23864.1027934485@thrush.ravenbrook.com>
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When I telnet into a FreeBSD box, I get this: $ telnet spong Trying 192.168.0.1... Connected to spong.my.domain Escape character is '^]'. Trying SRA secure login: User (nb): <user> Password: <password> If I mistype the password, I get this: [ SRA login failed ] User (nb): <user> Password: <password> And so on. Fair enough. But it has seemed to me that I have been "mistyping my passwords" much more often since about 4.1: maybe 20% of the time, as if somehow telnetd (or SRA, whatever that is) is getting the password check wrong intermittently. And If I fail a login the first time, it seems harder to pass it the second time (the ~20% failure rate goes up to maybe 50%). Recently I have run some little checks on this. Whenever I'm telnetting in from an xterm, if the first login fails, I type my password into another X app (so I can visually check it) and paste it from ther. Sometimes that login does also fail. So there's something wrong somewhere: xterm, telnetd, SRA (?). Unless this is a security "feature"?? Nick B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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