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Re: Authorization bug?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Thu Oct 8 08:18:25 1998

Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 08:19:47 -0400
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: project-db@MIT.EDU

At 02:56 PM 10/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks for reporting the problem.
>
>The first thing I would check is the certificate on the recent machine
>under WinNT.  When the project database says "WEBUSER" as your user
>name, that means it could not fetch "reidmp" out of your certificate
>when it tried to authenticate you.
>
>-wdc

The certificate looks fine; I've had no other trouble using it 
elsewhere over the last few weeks (eg: to look at the NecX catalogue). 
Whatever the problem was, it must have been a sporadic one.  This 
morning I tried again and the project database recognized me 
via this certificate.  I guess we should just chalk it up to a
random temporary gremlin.



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