On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 04:13:01PM +0200, Niels M�ller wrote:
> Details: I have glibc-2.1.1, and linux-pam-0.66 (that was what was
> supplied with Redhat-6.0). Can anyone confirm this incompatibility?
> One of its consequences is that if you have a system with these
> versions of glibc and linux-pam, and a lot of users with
> md5-passwords, and you decide to uninstall PAM, or replace the
> pam_pwdb module with a module that uses the crypt()-function from
> glibc, those users will no longer be able to log in. If the root
> password was encrypted with md5, you may have to dig out your boot
> floppies (which would be a little difficult for me; I have no floppy
> and no CD in the machine).
I was bitten by this, on a remote machine. Using Debian.
It seems the md5s really are incompatible. It may be
worthwhile to look at the corresponding crypting method
in both sources, and compare.
--
Havoc Consulting | unix, linux, perl, mail, www, internet, security consulting
+358 50 5486010 | software development, unix administration, training
