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Re: non crypt() password problems

Subject: Re: non crypt() password problems
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:42:00 -0700
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 04:50, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
Hello,

I've changed the default algorithm to be used with password hashing
from __unix__ to md5 in /etc/security/policy.conf.

In order to change the root password I had to reset it
to an empty field in shadow and then run passwd to put
the new md5 password. The default behavior is to detect the
algorith used in the old password and apply the same in
the new one. I don't know if this a feature or a bug.

That is the correct behaviour.

See:
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-0365/6mg5vpmbf?q=CRYPT_DEFAULT&a=view


The password is accepted by sshd and it works sweet :)
Nevertheless /usr/sadm/bin/smpatch does not accept the md5 password.
If I change back to the crypt() password everything is ok.

This is a known bug: 4760846

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Darren J Moffat

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