On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't > recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For > example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated. > > Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really > prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my > passwords.
For the most part, shadow aware libc6 programs should recognise md5 passwords, since libc6 includes a transparent crypt function that recognises a md5 salt and does the crypt accordingly. Programs that don't function should have bugs files against them. The way to make a program md5crypt aware is to pass the entire encrypted password as the salt to crypt() instead of just the first two characters. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
