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Gauntlet V4.2 general Version/GUI Problems
From: Ulrich Flegel <Ulrich.Flegel () CS Uni-Dortmund DE>
Date: 25 Jun 1999 16:19:24 +0200
Hi there, we recently acquired a Gauntlet V4.2 and installed it. When trying to remotely administer it using espmgui under Solaris I run into several problems: 1) The GUI tells me it is "Gauntlet Firewall (Evaluation)". We bought this product and I wonder whether it hasn't been registered. The Distributor told us there is no registration. Is this true? What says your espmgui/fwgui GUI (if you have a V4.2 Gauntlet which is not just a test version)? What is the latest Version (build?) of the Gauntlet and its GUI (also available in Europe?)? 2) The Gauntlet will not accept the userid/password configured using gauntlet-admin. I believe this happens because the GUI users are configured to use authentication method "APOP". The manual says one should use method "password" but there is no way (known to me) to make gauntlet-admin use something different than APOP for GUI users. Different auth.methods work for the other user lists, though (non-GUI users). When refusing the user, the gauntlet host will leave a lock file in /tmp/espm-config.lock. (IMHO this shouldn't happen). 3) The GUI allows me to break the lock /tmp/espm-config.lock. I don't understand why: at first it refuses the same user, but if the lock exists, the Gauntlet accepts the user. More nasty things happen when breaking the lock (snippet from shell where espmgui was started): Submitting request GET /realgui/getauthconfirm;html HTTP/1.0 ESPMMain Submitting request GET /getespmws;html HTTP/1.0 Submitting request GET /gethostlist;html HTTP/1.0 Submitting request GET /gethostlist;html HTTP/1.0 java.lang.NullPointerException at nai.espm.main.ESPMWSConfiguration.get(ESPMWSConfiguration.java:81) at nai.espm.lib.ConfigObjectTree.<init>(ConfigObjectTree.java:67) at nai.espm.main.EspmWS.<init>(EspmWS.java:73) at ESPMMain.loadMainFrame(ESPMMain.java:183) at ESPMMain.startup(ESPMMain.java:120) at LoginMain.in_process_start(LoginMain.java:135) at LoginMain.startGUI(LoginMain.java:115) at LoginMain.do_login(LoginMain.java:63) at LoginMain.main(LoginMain.java:41) Unable to launch application ESPMMain Error message java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at ESPMMain.loadMainFrame(ESPMMain.java:189) at ESPMMain.startup(ESPMMain.java:120) at LoginMain.in_process_start(LoginMain.java:135) at LoginMain.startGUI(LoginMain.java:115) at LoginMain.do_login(LoginMain.java:63) at LoginMain.main(LoginMain.java:41) The GUI is Version 4.2.090998. Is this a known bug? 4) Something funny: espmgui is a script containing ^M characters. It refused to run properly using bash until the ^M characters were removed. Help appreciated! TIA, Ulrich Flegel
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