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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 09:50:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Cc:        marcel@xcllnt.net
Subject:   Re: SRA login failed -- bug?
Message-ID:  <200205201650.g4KGoXQ21981@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020519205152.GA17093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
References:  <20020519205152.GA17093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>

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In article <20020519205152.GA17093@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>,
Marcel Moolenaar  <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote:
> I sometimes cannot get passed SRA secure login, even though credentials
> are given correctly:
> 
> Connected to athlon.pn.xcllnt.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Trying SRA secure login:
> User (marcel): 
> Password: 
> [ SRA login failed ]
> 	:
> 	(repeat last 3 lines -- Ad nauseam)
> 
> The problem is not a faulty password or username, but appears to be
> something that behaves much the same as uninitialized variables.
> Most of the time SRA secure login works ok, but it does occasionally
> reject the login. It is not possible to login at all when SRA rejects
> a login. It's a permanent state and the only way around it is to
> ^C and re-telnet, which BTW occasionally fails as well...
> 
> I haven't seen anything on this topic, so I'd like to hear if
> others are experiencing this as well and if this is a security
> "feature", a bug or misconfiguration.

Yes, I see this sometimes too, even in -stable.  I agree with your
conjecture -- it acts like there's an uninitialized variable that
sometimes starts out with an unworkable value.

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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