[35009] in Hotline Meeting
machines acting weird
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (munch@MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 27 13:30:04 1996
From: munch@MIT.EDU
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:29:52 EDT
I'm not sure exactly what's up with this, but here's a story you
might be interested in:
I went to the building 38 cluster to log in at around 12:30 today.
I sat down at m38-370-6 and tried to login. After I typed my password, the
cursor jumped towards the upper-left corner of the screen, as I'm used to
athena machines doing when accepting passwords. A few moments later, I got
an "Incorrect password entered" message. I tried logging in a few times,
making sure I'd gotten my password right. At about that point, the guy next
to me, on -5, logged out, so I scooted over and tried to log in. The same
thing happened there. On that machine, just to see what would happen, I
entered a false password, and the reaction was exactly the same. So, I logged
out and came over to the 11 cluster. When I logged in, I first tried a false
password, and got the reaction I'm used to: a relatively quick response of
"incorect password," which is not what I'd gotten from the 38 machines. When
I logged in using the correct password, everything was normal.
I believe all of the machines involved were SPARC4's, so I don't think
that the differences are because of differing hardware. The users who were
on those machines when I logged in here (dnchen and ad__cool) didn't respond
when I zephyred them asking if the machine had acted weird when they logged
on.
I don't know if this is at all useful to you, but it seemed like
something to share.
Jay Muchnij
ps. Yes, I did immediately change my password after logging in here, just
in case. :)
