I did now. :-)
Thanks for pointing out an obvious error on my part. (Thanks also to
Wehcni Liao, who also showed me the error of my ways.)
--Sandy
At 12:27 PM -0700 10/1/99, Brandon Warren wrote:
>Did you add the -randnum -rand2num options
>in afpd.conf ?
>
>Brandon
>
>On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
>
>> Hello...
>>
>> I am a new user of the netatalk package, on a vanilla RedHat 6.0
>> Intel system, and while I have been successful installing and using
>> the package with my macintosh, I have not been able to use the "2-way
>> encrypted password" feature.
>>
>> I have set up the netatalk+asun tarball (downloaded from
>> ftp.u.washington.edu/public/asun) along with the tcp wrappers package
>> and the DES library, as described in the Linux Netatalk-HOWTO by
>> Anders Brownworth.
>>
>> I have also followed his instructions on setting up 2-way encrypted
>> passwords, but this has not been successful. I have no problem using
>> standard unencrypted passwords. For example
>>
>> Host = myhost
>> User ID = jdoe
>> jdoe's "unix" password (in /etc/shadow) = foobar
>>
>> If jdoe, on his macintosh, goes to his chooser (version 7.6.2, MacOS
>> 8.5), and selects the file server "myhost", the "Connect to file
>> server 'myhost' as ..." dialog box comes up. If jdoe enters his user
>> id and his unix password "foobar" in the dialog box, there is no
>> problem; he can select volumes and everything is fine.
>>
>> However, if on his unix account he creates a file named ".passwd" in
>> his home directory, containing the password "boofar", with the proper
>> permissions (-rw-------) and then tries to mount a volume through the
>> chooser, he recieves an "incorrect password" message.
>>
>> Under both scenarios, the "Connect to file server..." dialog box says
>> that "Clear-text password" is being used.
>>
>> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Sandy
>>
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>> Sandor W. Sklar
>> Unix Systems Administrator, ITSS/CSS
>> Stanford University
>> Polya Hall, 255 Panama Street
>> Stanford, CA 94305-4136
>> Tel: (650) 723-0512 Fax: (650) 723-3253
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>>
>
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Sandor W. Sklar
Unix Systems Administrator, ITSS/CSS
Stanford University
Polya Hall, 255 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305-4136
Tel: (650) 723-0512 Fax: (650) 723-3253
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