Skip to content Accesskey=4Skip to sub-navigation Accesskey=3View our Accessibility Options MIT Information Systems Home About IS&T Contact IS&T Site Map Search Advanced Search
Getting StartedGetting Services by Topic or Alphabetically Getting Help

On This Page

[Help]

  

Quick Links

Top Level

Related Links

Ask OLC a question

Athena Consulting Homepage

Helpdesk Stock Answers (for Mac/PC questions)


PERMISSION DENIED (after being logged in for a long time)

If you try to save a file after you've been logged in over 10 hours, you
will get a "permission denied" error of some sort. This happens
because, after 10 hours, your authentication to Athena expires. In
order to be able to use your account again without interruption, all you
need to do is reauthenticate yourself. You can do this by typing (at
the athena% prompt):

        renew

and entering your password when prompted.

If you get the following error:

athena% renew
renew: Command not found.

then you should be able to manually get your authentication back by
doing the following at the terminal window's prompt:

kinit $USER

fsid -a ; zctl load /dev/null

You should be all set now!  Go ahead and save your files.  It should
work just fine.  You should have no problems for the next 10 hours.

(last updated Dec 04 2001)

MIT Home | Getting Started | Getting Services | Getting Help | About IS&T | Accessibility
Ask a technology question or send a comment about this web page.