[8233] in Athena Bugs
mh relies on username
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 19 09:39:10 1991
From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 91 09:39:40 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Both "inc" and "comp" rely on your local username (as stored in
/etc/passwd) to establish your network identity. They should use your
Kerberos principle name.
I run all my processes as root locally, with kerberos tickets and
tokens for kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. Inc reports that I have no mail to
incorporate, even when I do. I tried "inc -user kkkken", and that
failed with the same error. "inc -user kkkken", at least, should have
ignored my local username. I was able to incorporate from a shell
using my own UID.
"Comp" created mail that it claimed came from root. It would be
better if it used my network identity.
I have worked around this problem by putting the following at the top
of my /etc/passwd.local:
>> kkkken:*:7673:101:Ken Duda,Not Chee,W20-557,37788,5477487:/mit/kkkken:/bin/csh
>> kkkken:NOLOGIN:0:1:Don't ask:/mit/kkkken:/bin/csh
>> root:XFfPf/BCDGbKA:0:1:System PRIVILEGED Account:/:/bin/csh
Isn't that excellent? It fools both inc and comp. Inc will then
incorporate my mail. Comp will create mail from "kkkken". (It also
fools whoami and ps; I have no way any more of telling which processes
are running uid 0 and which are running uid 7673!)
Oh, _well_...
-Ken
