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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:08:19 -0600
From: Chris Rasch <crasch@openknowledge.org>
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Subject: Bug in the Kerberos ftp client on Red Hat 6.2?

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>Number: 894
>Category: krb5-appl
>Synopsis: Bug in the Kerberos ftp client on Red Hat 6.2?
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: krb5-unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 3 02:11:00 EDT 2000
>Last-Modified: Thu Jul 5 20:55:05 EDT 2001
>Originator: Chris Rasch <crasch@openknowledge.org>
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>Description:
Hi,

I apologize if this is the inappropriate place to send this bug
report--this seemed to be the most appropriate list, based on what I
could find on the web. If it isn't appropriate, please let me know.


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-----------Begin Bug Report---------------------------------------

There appears to be a problem with the Kerberos ftp client
(usr/kerberos/bin/ftp)
auto-authentication routines. Here's a history of the problem I've
had:

I just installed Xemacs-21.1.11
(Carlsbad Caverns) on a new installation of Red Hat 6.2. I also
downloaded and
untarred the
xemacs-sumo-2000-09-04.tar.gz into the /usr/local/lib/xemacs/
directory. When I
attempted
to "Update Installed Packages" (from any of the U.S. mirrors), I got the

following error messages:

Open Metalab.Unc.Edu
Connected To Metalab.Unc.Edu.
220 Helios.Oit.Unc.Edu Ftp Server (Version Wu-2.6.1(1) Sat Jul 8
10:18:10 Edt 2000) Ready.
Quote User "Anonymous"
530 Please Login With User And Pass.

If I tried to open an ftp connection to /ftp.xemacs.org:/ I get:

Opening FTP connection to ftp.emacs.org...
Logging in as user anonymous...
FTP error: USER request failed: 500 AUTH not understood

Judging from the error codes, the problem is with the ftp client.
Output from ps
-Afl, during an attempt to login to ftp.xemacs.org from within Xemacs
indicates that
Xemacs is using /usr/kerberos/bin/ftp as the ftp client:

000 S root 12825 12715 3 73 0 - 562 read_c 03:45 ttyp2
00:00:00
/usr/kerberos/bin/ftp -i -n -g -v

When I tried to manually try to log in to the ftp server using the
command line above:

# /usr/kerberos/bin/ftp -i -n -g -v ftp.xemacs.org

I got the following error codes:

Connected to xemacs.org.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 Server (ProFTPD on ftp.tux.org) [gwyn.tux.org]
500 AUTH not understood.
500 AUTH not understood.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
ftp>

Therefore, there appears to be a problem with the Kerberos ftp client
auto-authentication routines.

The workaround is to specify another ftp client (e.g. /usr/bin/ftp) as
Michael
Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> suggested,

> Alternatively, use a
> non-kerberized ftp client (in our setup, /usr/bin/ftp is it) and set
> the value of `efs-ftp-program-name' to it.

...or disable auto-authentication, as Evgeny Roubinchtein
<evgenyr@cs.washington.edu>
suggested


> I saw the same exact problem. Add a "-u" to the list which is the
> value of the efs-ftp-program-args variable (either using the Customize

> facility (i.e. "M-x customize-variable efs-ftp-program-args")
(probably
> the cleanest),

or

> (eval-after-load "efs"
> '(setq efs-ftp-program-args (cons "-u" efs-ftp-program-args)))

-------------------End Bug
Report--------------------------------------------------


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Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->krb5-unassigned
Responsible-Changed-By: raeburn
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jul 5 20:54:51 2001
Responsible-Changed-Why:
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