[OpenAFS] Re: "user doesn't exist" ??

[Garry Glendown]

Horst Birthelmer wrote:

 >
 > On Dec 19, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Garry Glendown wrote:
 >
 >> After the problems with the fs command, I started all over with the 
config, again following the documentation ... fs now works fine without 
any problems, but now I can't authentiate anymore ... The amdin/afs 
users are created as far as I can tell ...
 >>
 >> ka> list
 >> AuthServer.Admin
 >> krbtgt.FILES
 >> afs
 >> admin
 >> ka> examine admin
 >>
 >> User data for admin (ADMIN)
 >>   key (0) cksum is 1099486275, last cpw: Sun Dec 19 10:05:58 2004
 >>   password will never expire.
 >>   An unlimited number of unsuccessful authentications is permitted.
 >>   entry never expires.  Max ticket lifetime 25.00 hours.
 >>   last mod on Sun Dec 19 10:06:12 2004 by <none>
 >>   permit password reuse
 >>
 >>  # klog admin
 >> Password:
 >> Unable to authenticate to AFS because user doesn't exist.
 >>  # cat /usr/local/etc/openafs/server/UserList
 >> admin
 >>
 >> It must be reading the user data correctly, as it can notice a 
mistyped password:
 >>  # klog admin
 >> Password:
 >> Unable to authenticate to AFS because password was incorrect.
 >>
 >> Where can I look to find the reason for this?
 >>
 >
 > When you said you started over, did that mean you deleted the DB 
files for ptserver and kaserver, too??
 > Did you insert another key (the bos addkey stuff)??


I thought so, but

 > If you have enough time and motivation you can start over from 
scratch by deleting the databases in /usr/local/var/openafs/db, too, and 
create


I missed those files ... anyway, cleaned it up, but now I get:

  # klog admin
Password:
Unable to authenticate to AFS because a pioctl failed.

Using a "wrong" password, I get the error to be expected:

  # klog admin
Password:
Unable to authenticate to AFS because password was incorrect.

Did the whole thing twice, still the same result :(

this is starting to annoy me ;)

Tnx, -gg