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Re: ~userid doesn't work, although /mit/userid works

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Wed Mar 25 20:39:01 2009

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:38:01 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mit.edu>
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Hi Sanjoy -
    Thanks for reporting this. We're aware of some ongoing issues with
some of our authentication code, but we don't actually have a solution
yet. In the mean time, you can run "aklog" to get AFS tokens, which
authenticate you to the file servers.

Thanks for letting us know,
 - Evan

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>>> 2. I also started seeing the problem about "permission denied errors
>>>    trying to run dotfiles on login".  That one may be caused by recent
>>>    Kerberos library changes on my (Debian unstable) laptop, and the
>>>    answer at <http://web.mit.edu/linerva/www/> fixed it for me.
>>>       
>
> Hmm, that fix recently stopped working (I think today), and now the
> permission-denied errors are back, e.g.:
>
>   $ klist
>   Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_1000
>   Default principal: sanjoy@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
>
>   Valid starting     Expires            Service principal
>   03/25/09 15:18:20  03/26/09 12:33:20  krbtgt/ATHENA.MIT.EDU@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> 	  renew until 03/26/09 15:18:19
>   03/25/09 15:18:25  03/26/09 12:33:20  host/vinegar-pot.mit.edu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> 	  renew until 03/26/09 15:18:19
>
> But then the permission-denied shows up:
>
>   $ ssh -K linux
>
>   Welcome to Linerva, the SIPB Linux dialup for MIT.
>   Linerva runs Debathena on Debian lenny.
>    http://linerva.mit.edu                           for more information
>    blanche linerva-announce -a $USER          # for outage announcements
>    linerva@mit.edu              (not IS&T) for questions and bug reports
>
>   Last login: Wed Mar 25 15:12:52 2009 from pool-96-237-5-66.bstnma.east.verizon.net
>   -bash: /mit/sanjoy/.bash_login: Permission denied
>
> The client is /usr/bin/ssh on a Debian squeeze/sid machine.
>
> -Sanjoy
>
>
>   

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