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

Raymond Toy (toy@rtp.ericsson.se)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 09:55:46 -0400 

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber <sperber@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De> writes:

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

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

Here is "*efs kerberos*":

--
SunOS (wcsdsp4)
Kerberos Initialization for "toy"
--

Apparently, it's waiting for the "Password:" prompt.  If I run it from 
an xterm, the prompt shows up immediately.

    Raymond> It hangs at this point.

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

Ok.  I've added the -n (and -v) flags for iftp and tried it again.
Now the efs ftp buffer says:

--
open ftp.mindspring.com
Connected to gwa.exu.ericsson.se.
You are toy.@RTP.ERICSSON.SE (local name *No local name returned),
at address 147.117.132.216, version 1, cksum 9862