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Operating Systems Solaris Looking for help with SunOS 5.6 Post 302187575 by kevpatts on Monday 21st of April 2008 01:14:49 PM
Old 04-21-2008
Looking for help with SunOS 5.6
Hey all,

I've got my hands on 10 SunOS 5.6 SPARCStation 20 machines and I'm looking to get them up and running. They're all in various states of disrepair but I've got them all to a state where the hardware is working and the machine will at least attempt to boot.

I've only used Solaris as a basic user in a former job and haven't used it at all since I became interested in Unix/Linux. I'm looking for a few pointers as I go along as I can't find much in Sun's online documentation anymore.

I'm taking one machine at a time to build up my knowledge of the OS and the first I suppose is the best one to take has a fresh installation of the OS on it. I configured the hostname, Time zone, keyboard layout etc and let it reboot. When it rebooted the X session would not start so I rebooted it again and it gave me one filesystem error, which I cleared and then it would at least boot into a X login prompt.

The problem is now though that every time I attempt to log into either CDE or OW I just get the login prompt again.

All help appreciated,
Kev
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

login.krb5

LOGIN(8)                                                      System Manager's Manual                                                     LOGIN(8)

NAME

       login.krb5 - kerberos enhanced login program

SYNOPSIS

       login.krb5 [-p] [-fFe username] [-r | -k | -K | -h hostname]

DESCRIPTION

       login.krb5  is a modification of the BSD login program which is used for two functions.  It is the sub-process used by krlogind and telnetd
       to initiate a user session and it is a replacement for the command-line login program which, when invoked with a  password,  acquires  Ker-
       beros tickets for the user.

       login.krb5  will  prompt  for a username, or take one on the command line, as login.krb5 username and will then prompt for a password. This
       password will be used to acquire Kerberos Version 5 tickets (if possible.) It will also attempt to run aklog to  get  AFS  tokens  for  the
       user.  The  version 5 tickets will be tested against a local krb5.keytab if it is available, in order to verify the tickets, before letting
       the user in. However, if the password matches the entry in /etc/passwd the user will be unconditionally  allowed  (permitting  use  of  the
       machine in case of network failure.)

OPTIONS

       -p     preserve the current environment

       -r hostname
              pass hostname to rlogind.  Must be the last argument.

       -h hostname
              pass hostname to telnetd, etc.  Must be the last argument.

       -f name
              Perform pre-authenticated login, e.g., datakit, xterm, etc.; allows preauthenticated login as root.

       -F name
              Perform pre-authenticated login, e.g., datakit, xterm, etc.; allows preauthenticated login as root.

       -e name
              Perform pre-authenticated, encrypted login.  Must do term negotiation.

CONFIGURATION

       login.krb5  is  also  configured via krb5.conf using the login stanza. A collection of options dealing with initial authentication are pro-
       vided:

       krb5_get_tickets
              Use password to get V5 tickets. Default value true.

       krb_run_aklog
              Attempt to run aklog. Default value false.

       aklog_path
              Where to find it [not yet implemented.] Default value $(prefix)/bin/aklog.

       accept_passwd
              Don't accept plaintext passwords [not yet implemented]. Default value false.

DIAGNOSTICS

       All diagnostic messages are returned on the connection or tty associated with stderr.

SEE ALSO

       rlogind(8), rlogin(1), telnetd(8)

                                                                                                                                          LOGIN(8)
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