[9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...

[9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...

[Enrique Soriano Salvador]

I cannot connect to a cpu server from MacOsX using drawterm. I am using
the
binary  downloaded from (with SSL support):

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/

When I type my username, the term says: 

        "not a local console; won't ask for password"

It's extrange, because the drawterm is being executed in the same
machine (my laptop). 

I have sniffed the network, and the CPU server is responding:

        unsupported auth method
        cpu: bad auth method: '/dev/draw' does not exist.

Note that drawterm (the one with SSL downloaded from the same site) in a
linux box  ( that is in the same subnet) connects to the CPU server
without problems.

Any idea?

Thanks.
Q

pd: wow!! two mails about macs the same day!! sure you hate me!! :D

Re: [9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...

[boyd, rounin]

> When I type my username, the term says: 
> 
>         "not a local console; won't ask for password"

sounds like an old hack that was in passwd(1) to
stop idiots changing their password on cpu servers.

[allowing this would xmit your passwords(s) in the clear]

Re: [9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...

[andrey mirtchovski]

>> When I type my username, the term says: 
>> 
>>         "not a local console; won't ask for password"
> 
> sounds like an old hack that was in passwd(1) to
> stop idiots changing their password on cpu servers.
> 
> [allowing this would xmit your passwords(s) in the clear]

lunix drawterm checks whether $DISPLAY is 'host:#' or just ':#' and
decides whether it should prompt for a password or not.

no idea whether there's a difference in OSX

andrey

Re: [9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...

[Enrique Soriano]

> >> When I type my username, the term says:
> >>
> >>         "not a local console; won't ask for password"
> >
> > sounds like an old hack that was in passwd(1) to
> > stop idiots changing their password on cpu servers.
> >
> > [allowing this would xmit your passwords(s) in the clear]
>
> lunix drawterm checks whether $DISPLAY is 'host:#' or just ':#' and
> decides whether it should prompt for a password or not.
>
> no idea whether there's a difference in OSX
>

That was the problem... in my MacOSX
console $DISPLAY was set to '0:0'

If I set it to ':0.0', then drawterm works
well.

Now I understand why it worked ok on
a xterm and not in a mac console...

Thanks!!!

Q.

Re: [9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...

[Ben Huntsman]

In the past, didn't one have to recompile drawterm to use their servers instead of Bell Labs'?  


>>> Enrique Soriano<esoriano@gsyc.escet.urjc.es> 7/1/2004 2:38:51 AM >>>

> >> When I type my username, the term says: 
> >> 
> >>         "not a local console; won't ask for password"
> > 
> > sounds like an old hack that was in passwd(1) to
> > stop idiots changing their password on cpu servers.
> > 
> > [allowing this would xmit your passwords(s) in the clear]
> 
> lunix drawterm checks whether $DISPLAY is 'host:#' or just ':#' and
> decides whether it should prompt for a password or not.
> 
> no idea whether there's a difference in OSX
> 

That was the problem... in my MacOSX
console $DISPLAY was set to '0:0'

If I set it to ':0.0', then drawterm works
well.

Now I understand why it worked ok on
a xterm and not in a mac console...
 
Thanks!!!

Q. 

Re: [9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...

[andrey mirtchovski]

> In the past, didn't one have to recompile drawterm to use their servers instead of Bell Labs'?
>
>

the '-c' and '-a' switches are there for that reason :)