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Re: /svn/athena r25542 - trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Fri Jun 1 00:46:44 2012
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:46:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: source-commits@MIT.EDU
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On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> No, not quite. This is a gdm-only problem. lightdm already yells at
> you if you don't show up in /etc/passwd or NSS.
> This is not a major issue, since it happens like once a year. Complete
> sentences are nice, but if I had to pick between complete sentences or
> more details, I'd pick more details. Our space is already limited -- on
> large displays, such as those in cluster, the gdm greeter will expand to
> display the PAM text. On, say, 1024x768, the message will be truncated.
Huh, that small. I had forgotten...
> If we're concerned about truncation, we could do something like
> "Authentication error: E1234", and then have an article in Hermes
> explaining what that means.
I don't think we need to do that; I expect that people who are adding
'@mit.edu' to their username are unlikely to go straight to the Knowledge
Base for answers.
>
> If it's just the articles you're missing, we could reword it as:
>
> "Cannot authenticate. Check the network connection. Do not use '@' in your username."
>
> which has complete sentences, albeit in the imperative.
I would prefer that to the current version...
>
> "Or we could WONTFIX this".
>
... but I think I'd rather just WONTFIX the bug.
-Ben
> -Jon
>
>
> On May 31, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>
>> I'm a little unhappy that we lose complete sentences.
>> Per zephyr, it sounds like Jon is going to investigate what constraints we actually suffer under in the lightdm world.
>> -Ben
>>
>> On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
>>
>>> Author: jdreed
>>> Date: 2012-05-31 09:25:25 -0400 (Thu, 31 May 2012)
>>> New Revision: 25542
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>> trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/changelog
>>> trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/issue.net.no_network
>>> Log:
>>> In pam-config:
>>> * Explain that Kerberos errors can be caused by @ signs (Trac: #612)
>>>
>>>
>>> Modified: trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/changelog
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/changelog 2012-05-31 13:18:13 UTC (rev 25541)
>>> +++ trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/changelog 2012-05-31 13:25:25 UTC (rev 25542)
>>> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
>>> +debathena-pam-config (1.19) unstable; urgency=low
>>> +
>>> + * Explain that Kerberos errors can be caused by @ signs (Trac: #612)
>>> +
>>> + -- Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu> Thu, 31 May 2012 09:24:41 -0400
>>> +
>>> debathena-pam-config (1.18.3) unstable; urgency=low
>>>
>>> * No change rebuild to pick up config-package-dev 4.13 changes
>>>
>>> Modified: trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/issue.net.no_network
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/issue.net.no_network 2012-05-31 13:18:13 UTC (rev 25541)
>>> +++ trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian/issue.net.no_network 2012-05-31 13:25:25 UTC (rev 25542)
>>> @@ -1 +1 @@
>>> -Cannot contact the Athena login servers. Please check your network connection and try again.
>>> +Cannot contact Kerberos realm. Check network connection & ensure username does not contain '@'.
>>>
>>>
>
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