From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] auth/login Message-ID: <20021122014706.GA25865@thefrayedknot.armory.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:47:06 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 26233864-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:28:48AM +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote: > > Factotum sort of broke login. > > > > When you run login, your process becomes owned by the new id. > > However, unless the factotum you are using is owned by a userid > > that can 'speak for' other uid's, your new process can't authenticate > > to any resources off of your machine. > > I have same problem when I use auth/login at our full system, > however, I don't have no problem when I use the same command > in my home two PCs system (Auth/kfs + terminals). I wonder what > is the difference between these two cases. > well the only thing different there is the file server, so possibly in the way it speaks with factotum vs the way kfs speaks to factotum. just a guess though.