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Re: locked out of my debathena workstation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Sat Mar 14 20:47:09 2015

Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:47:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>
To: Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu>
cc: Alex Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>,
        "release-team@mit.edu" <release-team@mit.edu>
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It looks like Alex's host/dit.mit.edu principal is still single-DES; I'm=20
guessing this failure is because pam_krb5 is trying to get a service=20
ticket to protect from the Zanarotti attack.

--Quentin

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Alex Chernyakhovsky wrote:

>=20
> I checked on mkc, which is a fully updated alpha workstation (development=
) and had no issues.
>=20
> Workstations take updates automatically, so you may have had the update h=
appen while you where logged in.
>=20
> -Alex
>=20
>=20
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 8:24 PM=C2=A0Alex Prengel <alexp@mit.edu> wrote:
>       So Jon's reply answers this? But since I was logged in for a week a=
t the
>       time the problem started I couldn't have taken an update that might=
 have
>       caused this anyway.
>
>       =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 A.
>=20
>
>       On 03/14/2015 12:35 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky wrote:
>       > Hi,
>       >
>       > On Friday, Ben Kaduk moved a new copy of kerberos-config to propo=
sed.
>       > I believe that will affect the beta workstations; the notable cha=
nge
>       > is that allow_weak_crypto got turned off. Is your Athena password=
 by
>       > any chance still using DES-only? That would explain these symptom=
s.
>       >
>       > 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-al=
t-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
>=20
>=20
>
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