From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:43 -0400 To: "9fans@9fans.net" <9fans@9fans.net> From: "Sean Caron" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.63 (Win32) Cc: scaron@umich.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] authentication fails strangely after changing password Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef27262c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hi again, sorry for asking without experimenting first. and doubly so for replying to my own message. for the archives' sake, just wanted to say: i just blew away the nvram echo blah > /dev/sdC0/nvram then rebooted the system; respecified auth information when prompted. then used auth/changeuser to reset passwords for bootes and myself i'd hate to do it for hundreds of users but it did the trick for me. best, -sean On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:24:59 -0400, Sean Caron wrote: > > hi folks, > > i needed to change my password today. i logged in to my plan 9 box using > drawterm > and used 'passwd' to change the password for my account, scaron, and got > on the > system console and used 'passwd' to change the password for bootes. > > didn't get any errors when changing the password; it all seemed to 'take' > > now, when i connect to my system via drawterm and log in, i get > something like > this: > > user: scaron > scaron@diablonet.net password: ((type it)) > \n : server says: cpu: srvauth: auth_proxy rpc write: ((garbage)) > > goodbye > > or some variant on this. then it drops me. it seems to be exhibiting > this behaviour > for both my user and the bootes user with 100% consistency. > > looks like a buffer overflow somewhere. > > nothing changed besides my password and that of the bootes user. > > this system hasn't pull'd any updates in a while (maybe like a year..) > > is there anything i can do to rescue this or do i just need to blow the > system > away and start over? > > thanks, > > -sean > >