Topic: how do i get user Authentication thru apple talk

[patrick]

after having set up user accounts on the server and set up the same user name on the mac (macos 8.6) i try to connect to the server via apple talk (ethernet). appletalk recognises the server, i doubleclick and receive the following message: "The user Authentication method required by this server can-t be found, please check the AppleShare folder in the Extensions Folder and try again"
does anybody know what I miss out here? thanks for the help

[Robert]

From the SME Server V5.6 announcement:
"Macintosh clients are no longer able to connect to the server using "Clear Text Authentication". [...] Macintosh clients using System 7.6 and 8.x may need to install an AppleShare Client update from the Apple website to enable DHX encrypted authentication."
This applies to SME Server 6.0 as well.

[Anonymous]

From the SME Server V5.6 announcement:
"Macintosh clients are no longer able to connect to the server using "Clear Text Authentication". [...] Macintosh clients using System 7.6 and 8.x may need to install an AppleShare Client update from the Apple website to enable DHX encrypted authentication."
This applies to SME Server 6.0 as well.

I never found this update but if anyone can find it I would appreciate them posting it. Back last fall a method  of changing a file in SME server was posted that allowed "clear Text Authentication" on my SME 6.03 beta, unfortunately it is not in my notes at work so I will check at home. I guess I made the mistake of assuming these bulletin boards would retain the info.

I tried searching the current bulletin boards but it appears the older forum info is either not here or the time allowed to search is not great enough to pick up the older wisdom.

Unfortunaetly it appears that e-smith.org no longer is searchable either.

I hope Contribs.org re-installs all of the former forum info.

k_graham

[k_graham]

Here is the solution I used which worked with 6.03b and which is apparently was wiped from the forums in the switchover to Contribs org. Of course if someone can tell how to update the Mac for use with encryption I am happy to learn

Author: Rich Lafferty (richl-forums_AT_e-smith.com)
Date:   02-17-03 00:24

You should be able to re-enable plaintext auth with a custom template
for /etc/atalk/config -- if you look at that file, you'll see the UAM list.

That part of /etc/atalk/config is templated in
/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/atalk/config/20AfpdUAMLIST, so something
like this (untested) ought to work:

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/atalk/config

cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/atalk/config

cp /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/atalk/config/20AfpdUAMLIST .

## note the space followed by a period at the end of the previous line! ##

perl -i -pe 's/so"/so,uams_clrtxt.so"/' 20AfpdUAMLIST

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/atalk/config

(check the file /etc/atalk/config by hand here to see that it looks right)

/etc/init.d/atalk restart


Since atalk startup is backgrounded (because zip_getnetinfo takes a long
time on a network without appletalk routers), watch /var/log/messages
for errors, and for the message

Feb 17 00:22:37 hostname afpd[24141]: uam: "Cleartxt Passwrd" available

indicating success.

Keep in mind that this means that users' passwords will be traversing
the network in the clear, readable by anyone watching traffic on the
network -- which happens to be one of the reasons we removed support
for cleartext passwords in 5.6.

Cheers,
--Rich

[Robert]

Were you looking for this?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60792