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Re: Athena 9.4.47 patch release Tuesday May 27
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Fri May 23 14:44:33 2008
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Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 14:43:56 -0400
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
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Sorry for taking so long to reply:
1. Yes, I meant "software security device."
2. I am entering it, only to have it immediately ask me again, then
again, then again.
3. I have only tried it on Athena with Suns. I haven't been around
other Athena machines, like Linux boxes, to try.
Robert Basch wrote:
> On May 19, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Mark W. Manley wrote:
>
>> I'm hesitant to file a formal bug report, but I did run into an issue
>> with Athena on Solaris and Firefox. When I tried to get to a page
>> using MIT certificate authentication, it put me into an infinite loop
>> asking for my security code for the certificate, making it useless.
>> Has anyone else had that problem?
>
> Hi.
>
> Could you please provide a bit more info? Do you mean it
> prompts repeatedly for the master password for the "software
> security device"? Do you have and remember such a password,
> and are you entering it in response to this prompt? Does
> the problem happen on some Athena machines (e.g. Suns) but
> not others?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
