D-lighted, I'm Sure

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:41:14PM +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 2019-01-18 21:23, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
> > Haha, that's just an old example from back in the bad ole days where
> > NTP syncing is rare, and everyone's PC is slightly off anywhere from
> > seconds to minutes (or if it's really badly-managed, hours, or maybe
> > the wrong timezone or whatever).
> 
> I had one of those issues at work. One day when I came in to work it
> was suddenly not possible to SSH into a remote machine. It worked the
> day before. Turns out the ntpd daemon was not running on the remote
> machine (for some reason) and we're using Kerberos with SSH, that
> means if the clocks are too much out of sync it will not be able to
> login. That was a ... fun, debugging experience.
[...]

Ouch.  Ouch!  That must not have been a pleasant experience in any sense
of the word.  Knowing all too well how these things tend to go, the
errors you get from the SSH log probably were very unhelpful, mostly
stemming from C's bad ole practice or returning a generic unhelpful
"failed" error code for all failures indiscriminately.  I had to work on
SSH-based code recently, and it's just ... not a nice experience overall
due to the way the C code was written.


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