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Kerberos Generic error, RT 7.1H

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
Wed Oct 31 22:57:51 1990

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 22:57:38 EST
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Jerome H Saltzer <Saltzer@mit.edu>


This evening (10/31) at about 22:17, I encountered the following
strange response when trying to login to my RT workstation from my
home PC:

     16> telnet ne43-513-2
     
     MIT Project Athena  (NE43-513-2)
     
     login:  Saltzer
     password:
     Kerberos:  Generic Error:  get_intkt
     login:

When I responded to the second invitation to login, that login was
successful.  There were no problems noted in /usr/adm/messages.  A
check of the RT clock indicated that it was about 3 seconds behind
Kerberos.mit.edu.  I do not recall ever having seen this particular
message before.

Jon:  does the Kerberos log show anything unusual for 10/31 22/17?

Or maybe when it is late on a Halloween evening, events like this are
considered normal?

					Jerry







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