[679] in Kerberos
Re: Problem with -x option on rlogin
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (steiner@osf.org)
Tue Mar 28 08:23:57 1989
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: steiner@osf.org, kerberos-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jer@IDA.ORG
From: steiner@osf.org
> When I try to use the -x option with rlogin, the following happens:
>
> % rlogin csed-2 -x
> /usr/local/athena/rlogin: Kerberos rcmd failed: Service expired (kerberos).
> %
You may be getting a bogus error message.
rlogin calls kcmd which calls krb_sendauth. krb_sendauth sometimes
returns "errno" instead of a Kerberos error code (e.g., lines 206, 214
of the file lib/krb/sendauth.c). The "errno" value gets passed back
to rlogin, which re-interprets it as a Kerberos error code, so the
problem may have nothing to do with the error code rlogin is giving
you. (In any case, this is a bug in krb_sendauth.)
Jennifer
