[357] in athena10
Re: update_server and remote access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Aug 1 13:02:58 2008
Cc: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>, Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>,
athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:02:09 -0400
On Aug 1, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Xavid wrote:
> This behavior is pretty harmless, but we could possibly changing it
> by modifying the PAM configuration. It's the specified behavior of
> our current PAM configuration, so potentially we'd want to figure
> out what ideal behavior is and then see if we can change our
> configuration to have that behavior.
Like I said, I don't really care, I was just surprised as I have never
seen pam_krb5 prompt separately for a password. Indeed, I cannot
reproduce the behavior on Redhat, even with a similar pam configuration.
I'm also slighly baffled that the initial Password: prompt accepts a
null password in the first place.
-Jon
