Re: single host getting "authentication dialog incorrect"

[mark]

Never say never, but this sounds unlikely. I would
run the server and client with -d2 to see the reason
for the refusal.

M

On 22 Apr, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've had a small portion of my network running cfengine successfully for a
>> few months now, and about two weeks ago, a single host on my network
>> suddenly began notifying me that the challenge responses it is getting are
>> incorrect.
>> 
>> It really is only this one host out of about 15 that is having this
>> problem, so I'm pretty confused.  I've verified that everyone has all of
>> the correct keys, both on server and client side, I've wiped and refreshed
>> the config on the broken client, I've done everything I can think of.
>> 
>> The problem isn't consistent, in that it only happens about 2/3 times when
>> running out of cfexecd, but it never happens when I run it manually,
>> either using cfagent or cfexecd.
>> 
>> Anyone have any places I can look?  I'm pretty confused at this point.  I
>> thought it could be resource contention or something, but it's only one
>> host, and I can't see any resource spike during the failures.
>> 
>> This is 2.0.4 on Solaris.
> 
> I had a similar problem which I think I tracked down to an extra space in
> a cfservd ACL once, but I could just be on crack... I had upgraded to
> 2.0.5 and still had periodic problems, until I eliminated the space.  The 
> problem host was immediately after the two spaces
> 
> I'd be very interested in if this turns out the case because it would seem 
> to be such an innocous error, and I don't quite believe it myself.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> 
> Brian Seppanen
> seppy@chartermi.net
> 906-228-4226 ext 23
> 
> 
> 
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