Security Errors

Articles and Tips: qna

01 Feb 2003

I am currently trying to make my companies network more secure. We are using NetWare 6 and NetWare 5.1 along with Radius for remote connections. We also use Vasco Tokens (http://www.vasco.com). Every so often, when a user tries to authenticate to our network, they will get the following error:

-1660
0xFFFFF984
NMAS_E_SEQUENCE_NOT_FOUND
The specified NMAS login sequence is invalid

I can tell that something is not quite right with the Novell Modular Authentication System (NMAS), but I don't know exactly what it is. Any ideas?

Sitting With Security Woes in Szombathely

Dear Sitting: First of all, let's verify your version of NMAS. There is a tool called NMASMON.NLM, that ships with NetWare 5.1 and 6 and it allows you to get a log containing information about authentication to NMAS that is giving you the problem. Get a NMASMON log by performing the following:

Load NMASMON * sys:\public\nmas.txt trunc
Reproduce the error
Unload NMASMON

Looking at the log file (tin sys:\public\nmas.txt), the first line shows whether you are run the NMAS Standard Edition or the Enterprise Edition. More than likely, you will see that you are running the Standard Edition, because the Enterprise Edition supports additional login methods that the Standard Edition does not.

The Standard Edition does not support the Vasco Token method. You will need to upgrade to the Enterprise Edition if you want to use Vasco Tokens.

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes

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