[18693] in Hotline Meeting
m16 problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dill@MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 1 15:46:22 1993
From: dill@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 93 15:45:58 EDT
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: dill@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU
1) m16-034-21 has the Sun console stuff and the "ok" prompt, but
reports some file not executable on a boot device...
2) This machine, m16-034-18, wasn't allowing logins a few minutes ago.
My friend typed her username and password a few times, and each time
it popped up a "Login Failed" window saying that the workstation
was down for "cleanup" and that the user should try again in a few
seconds.
This sounded suspicious to me - I've heard of dummy login programs
that do nothing but collect passwords, and I've never heard of
this reason for disabling/denying login, and I can't imagine what
kind of cleanup a computer would do that would make it impossible
for people to log on. (couldn't it run in the bg???) (or does it
need to stay off the network for a couple minutes??? dunno)
At any rate, I advised my friend to change her password soon - I
rebooted the machine and it let me log in.
--> I'm curious about this - could you please respond if this was really
a valid thing?
Thanks,
Angie Hinrichs
<dill>
