[18507] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.4.17: sshd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed Nov 15 01:27:56 2000
Message-Id: <200011150627.BAA24576@manatee.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:27:46 -0500
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
System name: manatee.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.17 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgthree
Shell: /bin/athena/bash
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
ssh to a a sun (bart-savagewood).
What's wrong:
I had a "x" in the password field in /etc/passwd,
but no shadow entry. I tried to ssh in, and it would
not take my password or do kerberos authentication.
What should have happened:
The password check clearly should have failed; /etc/shadow and
/etc/passwd were inconsistent. It seems that kerberos should
have worked, because it (I believe) tries that first. I fixed
/etc/passwd, and was able to log in fine.
I am only bothering to report this because it might be
symtomatic of a real bug; there is no reason to fix this
behavior for its own sake.
