From: flower@donald.etdesg.trw.com (Rick Flower) Subject: Re: poeigl-1.11/login under PL5 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 22:41:22 GMT
In article <9303010114.AA03703@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STMQ%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Michael Quigley) writes:
>Dear Linuxers,
>
> I am currently running 0.99PL5 with the login/init and getty stuff that
>comes with the SLS 1.0 distribution. I am toying with the idea of upgrading
>to the PL6 kernel, but I have a problem. First of all, I like the SLS login
>program better than poeigl's. The SLS login program has many more features,
>and I like shadow passwords. So basically I don't want to get rid of it.
>Secondly, I can't get poeigl's login to work on my system. I don't think
>it is handling the shadow passwords correctly.
>
I was also playing around with the poeigl stuff yesterday.. The problem with
it is that it doesn't appear to have ANY support for the shadowing passwords
I ended up hacking around in the source for his login.c, since after I
installed it, I couldn't login anymore except for under root.. It turns out
that the poeigl stuff uses the regular crypt() function, and the shadow stuff
uses the it's own form of crypt stuff.. The don't appear to be compatible..
I ended up moving from the SLS-1.0 up to 0.99-pl6 and I just keep on using
the old "broken" login (part of shadow-3.??).. Hmm.. perhaps I'll check into
finding out why it broke and fix it!
> Anyone have any ideas on ways I can migrate to the newer kernel?
I did, and I find that everything works OK, but I occasionally get dumped off,
without harm -- I never lose anything, I just get logged off -- at which point
I just re-login and everything is fine..
>
>- Mike -
>
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