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Re: 8.2 login bugs on the sun

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Apr 3 16:29:18 1998

To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Apr 1998 16:12:17 EST."
             <199804032112.QAA27128@antharia.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 16:29:11 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> The first time I tried to punt to console login from xlogin with no
> packs attached, it killed X, then restarted X and xlogin without
> having tried a console login. The second time I tried, it worked. I
> don't actually know that this was related to the packs not being
> attached, as opposed to something else.

This could either have been a preexisting bug (I've seen it happen in
8.0 and 8.1), or it could have been a version of
/etc/athena/login/config prior to my recent patch.

> When you console login, it asks "login: " and then when you give it
> a username (say, root), it says "login: Password for root: " instead
> of just "Password for root: ".

This is a krb5 login issue, I think.

Please feel free to look into them; I'm a little behind on things
right now.

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