From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200307010526.h615Ql711262@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] strange things in /sys/log/auth In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:14:25 MDT." From: Dan Cross Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 01:26:47 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e4a007ae-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > there's nothing else wrong with authentication -- it works fine for all > users, as far as I can see... I've seen this before. It looks like the key that keyfs is using (presumably taken from nvram) doesn't match the key that was used when initially creating /adm/keys. Odds are good you added all your users after the initial corruption due to the key mismatch, though, which is why authentication still works correctly. If you have a small number of users, I'd suggest blowing away the current keys file and recreating it using the password that's in nvram, and then reassigning passwords. If that's too much of a hassle, then you could cd into /mnt/keys and just remove all the corrupt entries, but I'm not sure if you wouldn't run into other problems later on down the road. Or, I could be completely wrong. However, the last time I saw behavior like what you're describing, it was due to a key mismatch. Luckily, since I had just set up the auth server and there was no one in it, it was easy for me to just recreate it. - Dan C.