egdropp linking problem (bad password)

Darmoth · Post by **Darmoth** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 11:26 am

Hi,
I have 2 egddrops running on different shells and 1 from my LAN.
If I try to link either bot a-b, b-c or c-a they set a passsword for each other, but they dont link. They start a telnetconnection but this connection get always closed due to a "Bad Password".
I tried .chpass on the bots, linking them using .link or just setting them up as 1 hub and 2 leafs. All bots are 1.6.6 .
Any ideas?

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 11:32 am

Did you try setting a password, or did you clear it?

Also, did you do the .chpass on all bots?

Darmoth · Post by **Darmoth** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 1:03 pm

>>Did you try setting a password, or did you clear it?<<

Yes, I tried both

.

>>Also, did you do the .chpass on all bots?<<

And again a yes.

Yourname · Post by **Yourname** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 1:11 pm

Hi,

I had this same problem about an year ago. And guppy had a say on this. What he thought was there's something to do with the OS of the shell that has to do with the password. And he said that some makes of *BSD are giving problems like these.

Anyway, the shell with which i had the problem was ghostweb. And it got sorted after they did an OS upgrade. I suggest you find out the OS type, Machine stats and post it here for guppy to see. It may get you the right help.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 8:57 pm

Hi guys.. I believe that may by my problem too..
My isp os = FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0

My bots get stuck on "Challenging..." phase.

Darmoth · Post by **Darmoth** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 10:18 am

Hi

Well, now they try to link, but they also stuck at the challenge phase

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As far as I can see, they are running on Linux 2.4 and 2.2.19.
Sorry, I didn't get used to Unix very well yet, is there any command to find out on what kind and version of OS they are running ?

thanks guys.

Yourname · Post by **Yourname** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 3:13 pm

Hi,

Well, even im not SO used to UNIX but i know a bit. Maybe this will help you.

Code: Select all

 uname -a

This will give you the OS,etc.

Usually the OS and details come up when you telnet to the box.

Darmoth · Post by **Darmoth** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 3:38 pm

Thanks alot

screff · Post by **screff** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 2:42 am

A problem that i've run into which involves bots not linking at 'Challenging' is when they're behind a firewall of some sort (typically NAT). If their port isn't set to forward, it won't link. The only way around it is to have the administrator of the firewall you're behind open the bot's port.
just my 2 cents.
-screff

|KeF| · Post by **|KeF|** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 4:21 pm

same problem here... I have 4 bots, 2 on Linux, 2 on Win2k/XP. The Linuxbots link each other. The Winbots cannot link to the hub (linux) because of a password error. The only solution I have is to re-add the bots on the hub... does anybody have a better solution?

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Darmoth · Post by **Darmoth** » Sat Nov 10, 2001 9:37 pm

Hm, guess that was a newbie mistake

one of the bots was compiled with a different max nicklength.
I changed that and now linking them is no problem.