Re: Fw: AFS account lockouts

From: Konstantin Olchanski (olchansk@ux1.phy.bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 19:47:14 EDT

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    On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Flemming Videbaek wrote:
    > Some you have may have run into problems with afs passwords- RCF locked out
    > all password that had not been changed from the original value (as well as
    > some others). The following message tells you
    > how to remedy the situation.
    
    
    I do not like the "as well as some others" part of it. If they lock out
    accounts, they should use a well defined criteria and tell us what it is.
    
    
    K.O.
    
    
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > > As some people are by now aware, we have locked out AFS
    > > accounts with the default password.  As it  turns out, some users
    > > actually access their accounts, without having changed a
    > > password that begs to be changed.  Please inform your
    > > collaborators that if they get this error:
    > > Unable to authenticate to AFS because password has expired (KAPWEXPIRED).
    > >
    > > they should open a CTS ticket (which requires their NIS password)
    > > using this URL or from the RCF web page link.
    > >
    > > https://cts.rcf.bnl.gov/cts_new.pl
    > >
    > > --
    > >
    > > **************************************************************************
    > >  Morris Strongson, RHIC, USAtlas Projects    Telephone:   (631)344-4192
    > >  Information Technology Division (fka CCD)   Facsimile:   (631)344-7688
    > >  Brookhaven National Laboratory              Internet:    mms@bnl.gov
    > >  Building 515, Upton, NY 11973-5000          WWW:  http://www.ccd.bnl.gov/
    > > **************************************************************************
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > 
    
    -- 
    Konstantin Olchanski
    Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York
    olchansk@bnl.gov
    



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