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Re: locked out of my debathena workstation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Chernyakhovsky)
Sat Mar 14 12:35:08 2015

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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:35:00 -0400
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From: Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Hi,

On Friday, Ben Kaduk moved a new copy of kerberos-config to proposed.
I believe that will affect the beta workstations; the notable change
is that allow_weak_crypto got turned off. Is your Athena password by
any chance still using DES-only? That would explain these symptoms.

Sincerely,
-Alex

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm suddenly unable to log into my desktop machine (dit.mit.edu), debathena
> workstation running Precise, since yesterday afternoon. I get
> "authentication failure" on a graphical login attempt, a ctrl-alt-f1
> terminal login attempt, and ssh attempts from other machines. I'm able to
> log into other Athena machines, both locally and by ssh without problems.
> I'm not sure if or when an update might have triggered this as I was logged
> into the machine continuously since last Monday.
>
> Has anyone else seen this on beta workstations?
>
>
> Alex

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