[5965] in Kerberos
Krlogind problem on IRIX 5.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark E. Shoulson)
Thu Oct 5 19:38:33 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 5 Oct 1995 15:57:04 -0400
From: shoulson@research.nj.nec.com (Mark E. Shoulson)
Hello, all.
I'm having some trouble installing kerberos on our local system. We've
looked through all the documentation, etc, and haven't had any success. I
hope someone out there has some ideas.
We're trying to run kerberos on SGI IRIX 5.3 (and Solaris 2.4 also, but
first things first). We're using Kerberos 5b5. First of all, our
gethostname() seems not to return fully qualified names, but that's our
problem and we're working on workarounds for that. But the real problem
comes in when everything is working fine and we try to use kerberos rlogin.
It seems something is strange with the krlogind. The way it
autoconfigures, it doesn't allocate the pty properly. In krlogind.c, it
looks like it tries to allocate ttypX instead of ttyqX. The Makefile shows
we have both -DHAVE_TTYNAME and -DHAVE_PTSNAME, which is true, only it
should be using ptsname() and instead checks for ttyname() first. So I
reversed the tests in the code. That works, in the sense that the rlogin
succeeds. But the terminal is really confused. Sometimes, things seem to
work more or less correctly except that the line-feeds don't perform
carriage-return (and twiddling stty doesn't help). Other times, we get
odder behavior, like the keyboard simply not responding, or even weirder,
when you type a letter it gives what looks like an ls -F listing of all the
files in the current (home) directory that start with that letter. This
doesn't look to be a problem with kerberos as an authentication system, but
rather with the more "mundane" aspects of the rlogin daemon.
Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas? Any notions on how to fix
it?
Please respond to this account, as I don't read this newsgroup.
~mark
Mark E. Shoulson, Sr. Systems Programmer, NEC Research Institute
shoulson@research.nj.nec.com
