[21387] in Athena Bugs
Re: Fwd: strange problem with a user ssh'ing to a particular athena machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Thu Jan 30 18:45:53 2003
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:45:52 -0500
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Nicholas Knouf <nknouf@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, cavin@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200301302252.RAA06156@brad-majors.mit.edu>
This is just to confirm that a reboot fixed the problem. The user can now
login to this host both on the console and remotely.
Thanks,
--Tom
Garry Zacheiss writes:
> I looked into this today when Tom contacted OLC for assistance.
>
> The problem wasn't actually related to sshd at all. The problem
> was AFS-related; AFS was hanging on attempts to read the user's home
> directory. As I reported to Tom, rebooting the machine will fix this
> temporarily; updating to the most recent Athena 9.1 patch release will
> upgrade your AFS client to OpenAFS 1.2.8 and should fix it for good.
>
> Garry
>
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