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

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
23 Aug 1998 20:08:19 +0200


Yo Ray,

Sorry all this is taking forever.

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

>>>>> "Michael" =3D=3D 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 f=
ollow
Michael> the usage protocol EFS expects.

Ray> Here is "*efs kerberos*":

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

Ray> Apparently, it's waiting for the "Password:" prompt.  If I run it fr=
om =

Ray> an xterm, the prompt shows up immediately.

Raymond> It hangs at this point.

Am I right in assuming that there's some sort of problem with the
interaction of the ftp client and XEmacs's subprocess code?  What
happens if you start the ftp client in a shell buffer within XEmacs?

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.

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

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

I'm not sure how to interpret this.  Is there a problem here?

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Cheers =3D8-} Mike
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