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6.0C /bin/login

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 1 00:00:26 1988

From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 88 23:59:31 EDT
To: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, krbdev@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of Wed, 31 Aug 88 17:49:51 EDT <8808312149.AA09198@PROMETHEUS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Richard Basch   <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

> A suggestion: check this again, using "kill -QUIT" or something in
> place of gcore.  I've seen gcore screw things up before.

... will do

> I also suggest you test this further.  I just tried it on my RT with
> no problem:
>      <1002  5:46pm>[prometheus!raeburn:/mit/raeburn]
>     % rlogin prometheus -l root
>     login: root has not given you permission to login without a password.
>     Password:
>     Warning: no Kerberos tickets obtained.
>     Don't login as root, use su
>     prometheus# 

root is a special case in the code.  I don't consider this a valid test.

> Perhaps you've got the password wrong?  That would explain consistent
> failures...

... not true... I guarantee I did not get the wrong password as I did
try it with telnet and it worked.

-Richard

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