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Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting authentication errors when
trying to edit data served by another machine, when that domain's root
password is empty (it isn't always empty, just testing)?

Here's the exact situation.  Voyager is our two level NetInfo server, so it
serves / and /voyager.  (It's a NeXTcube, this is all NeXTstep 3.0.)
Pioneer, a color station, serves /pioneer.

Pioneer can not authenticate itself to / or /voyager.  It just can't.  At
first I thought it was some sort of trusted_networks glitch, but we don't use
trusted_networks.  Then I thought it might've been a machine/IP
address/ethernet address mismatch, but all the relevant data seemed fine.

Heck, I'm stumped on this one.  Anyone else have any ideas?
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this:  If we've been bamboozled
long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.  We're no
longer interested in finding out the truth.  The bamboozle has captured
us.  it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that
we've been so credulous.  (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
new bamboozles rise.)
-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987