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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] authentication fails strangely after changing password
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:24:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c162d156fcd03d90d6ca836320b862c@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d920918eba918dfa71e7b62ac634a293@csplan9.rit.edu>

> You should only have to do this when you change the bootes password;
> it is Bad News when the nvram password doesn't match the bootes password.
>
> No need to do it if you change a different user's password.

it's also bad news if your fileserver does not agree. :-)

auth/debug is very helpful in finding misconfigurations.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-22 22:24 Sean Caron
2009-04-22 22:45 ` Sean Caron
2009-04-23  0:21   ` john
2009-04-23  0:24     ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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