EFS 1.15 bug: ftp to host-inside-firewall works; efs doesn't

William F. Dowling (wdowling@isinet.com)
Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:18:35 -0500 

Greetings earthlings:

I am trying to efs-read, if that's the term I want, files on the
host prodaix2; here is a uname -a from that machine:
	uname -a AIX prodaix2 2 4 00089976A700
I am able succesfully to ftp from command line
(with specific user name/passwd, not
anonymous) there, with name/passwd being read from my local ~/.netrc.
But when I use efs from emacs it reports
	Password for <myusername>@prodaix2 failed: try again.
I have carefully re-entered my password (as ftp successfully reads it
from ~/.netrc) several times with the same bad password result.

It is as though efs were adding/changing my password or user name
before transferring it.  When I look at the log, I see the correct
user name, and then
	quote pass  Turtle Power!
	ftp> 530 Login incorrect.

I am able to use efs successfully to see files on other hosts inside our
firewall, even another aix4.2 machine.

To be honest, I don't know if this is an efs bug, but I would be
very grateful for any help in solving the problem. It seems that if
ftp works, efs should.

Thanks,

Will Dowling
wdowling@isinet.com


Emacs  : XEmacs 20.4 "Emerald" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux) of Mon Apr 20 1998 on dres
Package: efs

efs believes that the host type of host-inside-firewall is unknown.

current state:
==============
(setq
 efs-auto-version "1.15/1.8"
 efs-cu-version "1.15/1.12"
 efs-defun-version "1.15/1.1"
 efs-dired-version "1.15/1.32"
 efs-fnh-version "1.15/1.3"
 efs-netrc-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-ovwrt-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-report-version "1.15/1.9"
 efs-version "1.15/1.56"
 efs-x19.15-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil
 efs-anonymous-umask nil
 efs-auto-save t
 efs-auto-save-remotely nil
 efs-backup-by-copying nil
 efs-binary-file-host-regexp nil
 efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|t?gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|sit\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|[jm]pg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\|lib\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\|T?GZ\\|[JM]PG\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
 efs-buffer-name-case nil
 efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil
 efs-debug-ftp-connection nil
 efs-ding-on-chmod-failure t
 efs-ding-on-umask-failure t
 efs-disable-netrc-security-check nil
 efs-expire-ftp-buffers t
 efs-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil
 efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
 efs-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
 efs-gateway-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
 efs-gateway-hash-mark-size nil
 efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
 efs-generate-anonymous-password t
 efs-hash-mark-size 1024
 efs-high-security-hosts nil
 efs-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
 efs-local-apollo-unix nil
 efs-ls-cache-max 5
 efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix dumb-unix
			 dumb-apollo-unix super-dumb-unix)
 efs-max-ftp-buffer-size 3000
 efs-maximize-idle nil
 efs-message-interval 0
 efs-nlist-cmd "ls"
 efs-nslookup-on-connect nil
 efs-nslookup-program "nslookup"
 efs-prompt-for-transfer-type nil
 efs-pty-check-retry-time 5
 efs-pty-check-threshold 1000
 efs-retry-time 5
 efs-root-umask nil
 efs-send-hash t
 efs-set-modtimes-synchronously nil
 efs-short-circuit-to-remote-root nil
 efs-suppress-abort-recursive-edit-and-then nil
 efs-text-file-name-regexp ".*"
 efs-treat-crlf-as-nl nil
 efs-umask nil
 efs-use-passive-mode nil
 efs-verbose t
 efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
 efs-verify-modtime-host-regexp ".*"
 efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
 efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
 efs-local-host-regexp ".*"
 efs-ftp-local-host-regexp ".*"
 efs-gateway-host nil
 efs-gateway-type nil
 reporter-version "3.2"
 features '(reporter efs-report info comint-xemacs efs-dired efs-defun comint ring efs
	    man xrdb-mode mail-utils smtpmail mail-abbrevs sendmail sh-script executable
	    cperl-mode annotations xpm-button tags etags thing cc-mode cc-cmds cc-styles
	    cc-align cc-menus cc-langs cc-defs cc-engine cc-vars passwd efs-netrc
	    lazy-lock vc-hooks makefile rsz-minibuf func-menu font-lock crypt crypt++
	    completer auto-save view-less view default-dir efs-cu efs-x19\.15 efs-fnh
	    efs-ovwrt efs-auto cus-face dired-faces dired-xemacs dired bbdb-autoloads
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	    hm--html-menus-autoloads gnus-autoloads gnats-autoloads games-autoloads
	    eterm-autoloads emulators-autoloads electric-autoloads efs-autoloads
	    ediff-autoloads edebug-autoloads custom-autoloads comint-autoloads
	    cc-mode-autoloads calendar-autoloads bytecomp-autoloads auctex-autoloads
	    apel-autoloads auto-show fontl-hooks ediff-hook x-iso8859-1 x-menubar mouse
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	    help-nomule derived frame text-props cus-start custom widget cl-autoloads
	    cl-extra mini-cl cl cl-19 packages backquote lucid-scrollbars cut-buffer
	    lucid-menubars xface xpm png gif jpeg athena-dialogs x tty-frames tty toolbar
	    nas-sound native-sound scrollbar network-streams subprocesses menubar
	    berkeley-db dbm md5 xemacs offix lisp-float-type linux dialog window-system
	    c-balloon-help)
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