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Re: Krb and AIX4.2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Jul 15 14:51:45 1997

To: Donn Cave <donn@u.washington.edu>
Cc: mmessier@magma.ca, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 15 Jul 1997 14:48:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: Donn Cave's message of Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:46:51 -0800

Donn Cave <donn@u.washington.edu> writes:

>> The ftpd program doesn't log correctly, more utmp problems here.  This
>> time, ftpd isn't trying to fill out enough fields in utmp, leading to
>> some garbage occasionally in the wtmp file.  This was more of a problem
>> under Digital UNIX, but it showed up a couple of times under AIX 4.2.
>> The fix is to set ut_id, ut_type and ut_pid.  I also reversed the ftp
>> service principals, to prefer "host" over "ftp".

The last fix is incorrect.  The ftp security draft specifically says
to try ftp first, then host.

		Marc

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