[8116] in Release_7.7_team
Re: locked out of my debathena workstation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Prengel)
Sat Mar 14 20:24:46 2015
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:24:37 -0400
From: Alex Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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So Jon's reply answers this? But since I was logged in for a week at the
time the problem started I couldn't have taken an update that might have
caused this anyway.
A.
On 03/14/2015 12:35 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky wrote:
> 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
