Re: EFS 1.16 bug: Can't get EFS to work with Kerberos

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
25 Jun 1998 15:43:37 +0200


>>>>> "Raymond" =3D=3D Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

Raymond> To whom it may concern:

Raymond> As the subject says, I can't get efs to work with Kerberos.

Raymond> Two problems:

Raymond> 1.  If I haven't run kinit, efs seems to try to run kinit but I =
never
Raymond>     get prompted for my password.

In that case, there should be a buffer named "*efs kerberos*".  Could
you mail the contents of that?  Apparently, your kinit doesn't follow
the usage protocol EFS expects.

Raymond> 2.  However, if I run kinit elsewhere, efs seems to know that, a=
nd
Raymond>     starts connecting immediately.  However, when iftp prompts f=
or the =

Raymond>     user name, efs seems to hang.  Here is an example of what th=
e ftp
Raymond>     buffer looks like when I try to access /rtoy@ftp.mindspring.=
com:/

Raymond> 	open ftp.mindspring.com
Raymond> 	Connected to gwa.exu.ericsson.se.
Raymond> 	You are toy.@RTP.ERICSSON.SE (local name *No local name returne=
d),
Raymond> 	at address 147.117.132.216, version 1, cksum 7888
	=

Raymond> 	Name (ftp.mindspring.com:toy): =


Raymond>    It hangs at this point.

The ftp client should not automatically ask for a user name; EFS
expects to be able to send the USER command itself.  Likely you need
to start iftp with the -n command line flag.

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Cheers =3D8-} Mike
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