[220] in Athena Bugs
re: 6.0a VAX /bin/login password problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Mon Apr 18 14:15:25 1988
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 88 13:13:51 EST
To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
Cc: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, vs-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU's message of Mon, 18 Apr 88 01:12:58 EDT
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Well, Mark, I am unable to duplicate this on your workstation. I
> login as me with a bogus passwd, then as me with a valid password. My
> homedir (on eurydice) attaches, and my ~/.{login,cshrc} happen as
> usual.
I wonder if the problem is that some /bin/login bug is triggered by
the passage of time rather than the exact number of password
attempts. It may be that some signal goes off after N (= 60?)
seconds that leaves /bin/login uninterested in attaching the home
directory. Under that hypothesis, if you get your second
password-typing attempt in before the deadline it still works right.
Jerry
