From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 10 01:28:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA07347 for current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 01:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA07320 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 01:28:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA16983; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:27:27 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199603100927.LAA16983@grumble.grondar.za> To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Please check... Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:27:26 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > > What happens if your network is down to your kerberos server and your > > user.root instance has a different password than your local root account? > > How do you know which password to give? > > > > I fear in this situation you even can't enter su in your client machine. > It is especially bad on slip machine, because you need to enter > su password first time to dial to provider to become kerberos > client next. If it is so, please back out this change. In both of these cases there is the -K option which tells su not to use kerberos. There is a little confusion about what my change actually does. In the pre-cahnge version of su, the user could be prompted twice for a password. in the post change version, the user is promped once, and the same password may be used again _if_necessary_ by the "other" authentication method (root password in /etc/passwd). I did post the patch for review before committing it. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key