Resolved: The command '/usr/local/sbin/ping-auth -s > /etc/thoth/thothid 2>/dev/null' returned exit code '127', the output was ''

[stephenw10]

Ah, so upgrades appear to work because the file exists. I was busily trying to work out how that file was being populated by ping-auth when it doesn't exist!

Ok so if it exists it will show there but the utility is deprecated and the ID itself is unused in 23.09. So it should be removed.

[JonathanLee]

It required the full folder fixed it :)

[jrey]

@stephenw10

Which is contrary to JonathanLee's belief/understanding - that this is used in OpenVPN or compex wifi card.

I'm going by your previous statement that "later" hardware doesn't even have it, that it was not needed.

Yes I tracked it down, and discovered that the file with ID exists, and if that did not there would be an error because ping-auth does not exist on my system.

Yes, the dashboard should likely stop looking for it and anything else that might call system_get_thothid is also likely suspect where the file does not exist and needs to be recreated. In my case nothing I am aware of uses it, so as long as the file exists it can display or not..

The code will catch up when it does.

[JonathanLee]

@stephenw10

ping-auth -s is not included in 23.09.1 so the folder is no longer pre populated

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15103

This is now confirmed as the cause of cryptID no longer working in 23.09.01 on fresh firmware

[JonathanLee]

Thanks Steve !!

Now I will start looking into the layer 2 broadcast domain issues on 23.09.01

[JonathanLee]

@jrey Thanks too

[JonathanLee]

@jrey so the crypt chip is no longer used??

[stephenw10]

It is not. The current 2100s do not include it.

[jrey]

@JonathanLee said in Resolved: The command '/usr/local/sbin/ping-auth -s > /etc/thoth/thothid 2>/dev/null' returned exit code '127', the output was '':

so the crypt chip is no longer used??

neither is the Caesar cipher or Hebren rotor machine.
The cheese moves.

[JonathanLee]

@jrey
You forgot Victor.

Victor Cipher:
90478 05632 84252 48466 62071 52900 90694 77651 20202 17031 43290 48230 28881

Decrypted:
SACRAMENTOSTATEUNIVERSITYCOMPUTERSCIENCESTUDENT

[JonathanLee]

                   !!!! CIPHER TEXT !!!!

96658 86791 06602 58887 06408 39604 09151 05508 05869 69555 
04957 78785 72401 60078 36796 95036 03789 61329 36865 65780 
02001

                       Decoded

ATTACKATDAWN. BYDAWNIMEAN0500.NOT0915LIKEYOUDIDLASTTIME…A

I wrote this program to share with fellow students to try to get some interested in ciphers with code.

it's about 1,191 lines of code,

its on my GitHub if you want to check it out

https://github.com/JonathanDLee24/VictorCipher