[23948] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.2.16: access_on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Khusid)
Sat Sep 6 16:17:46 2003
Message-Id: <200309062017.h86KHiff029666@m2-032-13.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:17:44 -0400
From: Michael Khusid <mkhusid@MIT.EDU>
System name: m2-032-13.mit.edu
Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.2.16
Display type: ifb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
I was trying to use the access_on functionality on a Sun Solaris 9 machine.
What's wrong:
Access_on does work, however, it currently allows only access to unsecure telnets (I have tried telnet - port 23 and ssh - port 22 protocols only). Neither secure shell (OpenSSH) nor kerberized telnet connection worked.
What should have happened:
The best way is to start the OpenSSH Daemon on access_on command. Perhaps it actualy does try to start, but it would fail since /etc/ssh host keys are not present for a standard Solaris installation.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The suggested strategy is to either generate the SSH host keys in /etc during installation, or check for them and create them on the first attempt of running access_on by a user. Once the keys are complete, start /etc/athena/sshd to provide secure connection to the workstation.
As a side note, the /etc/sshd_config file is provided in the default installation. It functions normally.
