[2908] in testers
Re: sun4 [8.0A]: encrypted rcp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 7 21:55:16 1996
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 21:53:03 EDT."
<199606080153.VAA01502@deliverator.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 21:54:44 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> the-other-woman:/tmp: rcp -px jweiss@tow:/tmp/deliverator-new-srvtab /tmp/quux
> krb_sendauth mutual fail: Generic kerberos error (kfailure)
If you didn't have permission to be jweiss on the remote machine
(because your homedir wasn't attached and your tickets were as
jweiss.root), then you ran into the simple and long-standing problem
that rlogin -x and rcp -x give you useless error messages when
anything goes wrong.