Re: Unable to authenticate after upgrading

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:59:42 -0500

"Steve" <sbassle@alleghenyenergy.com> wrote in message
news:1132597603.011405.302420@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> OK, never mind. It is, of course, the one thing that I thought it
> couldn't be. We happened to have a scheduled outage today for
> something else, so I took the opportunity to umount the home directory
> and check the permissions. The world r & x bits were indeed not set,
> and as soon as I set them and remounted the filesystem, everything
> worked.
>
> When I recreated the home directory mount point the other day, I had
> our normal umask of 027 in place, rather than the default (and
> insecure) 022, so the new directory was not world-readable or -CD'able
> (so to speak). And even though the permissions were not visible, they
> did prevent read access, so the keys were not available.
>
> Now, the last remaining questoin is how do I get the blood off the wall
> where I've been banging my head for the last three days?

I find that painting the wall is sometimes easier. But I'm confused. You saw
permissions of the mount point, *AFTER* you mounted a directory on it? That
makes no sense!

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