[1965] in SIPB bug reports
charon kerberos rlogin, hearts server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jul 10 20:20:44 1991
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 91 17:18:53 PDT
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@cats.UCSC.EDU>
To: srz@charon.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, sipb-staff@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Stan Zanarotti's message of Wed, 10 Jul 91 20:11:35 EDT <9107110011.AA09379@charon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 91 20:11:35 EDT
From: srz@charon.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti)
Excuse me for being confused, but is there a reason you can't log into
charon as root directly? I don't see why you need an encrypted connection
to start the hearts server.
Or use sac :-)
Or start the hearts server as yourself. The program is setuid default.
You apparently misunderstand. I don't want to type my password over
the network. In order not to type my password over the network, I
have to use kerberos to log into charon, either as myself or as root.
I *can't* use kerberos to log into charon from UCSC, because the
kerberos daemons running on charon are too old and don't accept
kerberos rlogins from UCSC because bugs that are fixed in the newest
source code. I had already sent one message to sipb-staff about this
previously.
Any of these possibilities is better than getting pissed and showing how
you're such a better SIPB member than any of us are...
Yelling at people, even electronically, doesn't produce results, Jon.
If you haven't learned this yet, I suggest you try.
Well, asking nicely for people to update the software (as I said
above, I have already sent one message to sipb-staff about it)
apparently doesn't work either. I asked, and that didn't work, so I
yelled. What else can I do? What will it take to get you to update
the kerberos stuff running on charon? Do I have to come back to
Boston, walk into your office, get down on my hands and knees and beg
for you to do it?
As I've already said, *I* can't do it, because the local changes on
charon are not documented sufficiently for me to be able to
reconstruct them based on the newest Kerberos sources. If I *could*
do it, I would.
jik
