[1667] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: login takes me 13 minutes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Sun May 11 14:32:55 1997
To: jmmikkel@MIT.EDU (Joanne M Mikkelson)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 May 1997 16:56:46 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 14:36:57 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> Anyway, the real point is that then I took my computer home, where I
> am evidently one of the few who doesn't have a network. Of course, I
> had neglected to remove networking stuff from the startup before I
> brought the computer home.
Yes, this is an annoying problem that we're aware of.
I'm not sure what a good solution is. Maybe have
the athena startup script exit if gettime times
out (making gettime so it times out, of course... ;)
This problem is always a pain when people take their
machines home for the summer or graduate.
> Then I tried using /bin/login.redhat, since without kerberos it ought
> to be able to deal, but NO, it bombed out too. It printed "Login
> incorrect" *four* times after I typed my username (the password was
> evidently unnecessary), returned to the login prompt, and syslogged
> the following:
Bleah. This is bad. It should work. Maybe this is a problem with
the PAM stuff? Do you have a password entry in /etc/passwd with an
encrypted password. (I'm sure you do, just checking. ;)
> Finally, I want to just know - is it our policy to assume everyone's
> always on the net? If it is, I should think it would be kind to say
> so in a footnote on the docs or something. If it's not our policy, I
> should think we should try booting a fresh install without net before
> we consider the testing to be done...
It's known that you will have problems with stock Linux-Athena
if you're not on the net. We really should see if there's
a way to work around this.
Erik
