GSS Legato authentication messages

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Hi all, I've read prior posts enough to know there are 'some glitches' with the new authentication mecahanism. With NW server 7.3 running on Solaris 2.8 I found a bunch of GSS Legato authentication messages in the daemon.log file today: 07/03/06 03:31:17 nsrexecd: GSS Legato authentication user session entry (warning): 'User authentication session timed out and is now invalid.'. Session number = 1e14a:2657, domain = NT AUTHORITY, user name = SYSTEM, NetWorker Instance Name = windozclt1.d2d.com 07/03/06 03:31:17 nsrexecd: GSS Legato authentication user session entry (warning): 'User authentication session timed out and is now invalid.'. Session number = 1e1a0:2e4, domain = NT AUTHORITY, user name = SYSTEM, NetWorker Instance Name = windozclt2.d2d.com These continue about a half dozen times until 5 minutes later the message changes to have the NW server as the NW Instance Name. The messages continue about every 10 minutes or so. Meanwhile, the save group that should have been running since the messages started has never completed and nsr_shutdown is ineffective in stopping the nsr binaries on the server. Anyone seen similar behavior before? Thank you.

ble1 · Answer

If you see that problem with latest patch (7.3.1) you should report it to support.

kdonate · Answer

I certainly agree. Updating to 7.3.1 is not in the immeadiate future though, although it will happen soon enough.I'm in the process of manually killing the nsr* server processes. ick!

cfowler2 · Answer

We just made the move to 7.3.2 and we see these messages now as well within our Win32 environment. I have no idea what they refer to as we're still fumbling through the GUI to try to understand why half the information we used to see reported via the messages window is no longer apparent. We are not currently experiencing any hanging type behavior though. I would be nice to know what the message pertains to though. Possibly JAVA related?

message:
09/19/06 10:20:50 nsrexecd: GSS Legato authentication user session entry (warning): "User authentication session timed out and is now invalid.". Session number = 0:2db, domain = NT AUTHORITY, user name = SYSTEM, NetWorker Instance Name = server.domain

Server: Windows Server 2003 SP1
NW Version: 7.3.2

ble1 · Answer

Hi Carter,These messages are rather noisy, but most of the time, at least myself, I could not see them causing problems. They are part of new auth method towards session handshake system introduced by 7.3.x and given message should be rather informative. It might be that in future releases there will be switch (or it will be done by design) to suppress them.

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