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- From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: NetInfo authentication
- Message-ID: <18152@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:06:55 GMT
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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- Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting authentication errors when
- trying to edit data served by another machine, when that domain's root
- password is empty (it isn't always empty, just testing)?
-
- Here's the exact situation. Voyager is our two level NetInfo server, so it
- serves / and /voyager. (It's a NeXTcube, this is all NeXTstep 3.0.)
- Pioneer, a color station, serves /pioneer.
-
- Pioneer can not authenticate itself to / or /voyager. It just can't. At
- first I thought it was some sort of trusted_networks glitch, but we don't use
- trusted_networks. Then I thought it might've been a machine/IP
- address/ethernet address mismatch, but all the relevant data seemed fine.
-
- Heck, I'm stumped on this one. Anyone else have any ideas?
- ------
- Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
- ------
- One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled
- long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no
- longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured
- us. it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that
- we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
- new bamboozles rise.)
- -- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
-