[OpenAFS-devel] Problems with OpenAFS on Alpha Linux

[Reinhold Bader]

Right,

with OpenAFS 1.2.4 the file creation problems have vanished, but still 
one user
can authenticate (by chance) while others cannot (no mistypings, e. g.
 use the -password switch on klog).

sizeof(long) is 8, so this should be OK. But the README in the source 
directory
says

...
   alpha_linux22 (DES does not work, will require one more change to
                                compile)
...

Compile it did though, but apparently to wrongly working encryption ...
what exactly do I need to do to diagnose what is going wrong in
src/des/crypt.c?



chas williams wrote:

>In message <3CDBB178.3070206@lrz.de>,Reinhold Bader writes:
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>>(1)  klog uh341au
>>Password:
>>Unable to authenticate to AFS because password was incorrect.
>>    
>>
>
>if i happen to know i typed my password correctly the first place to look
>for trouble would be the des libraries.  what is the sizeof(long) on
>your alpha?  crypt.c tries to use bitfields to handle a long as two 
>32 bit ints but that doesnt seem to work on the ia64 (its possibly a 
>gcc problem really)
>
>
>  
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