From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek) Subject: Re: poeigl-1.11/login under PL5 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 09:46:02 GMT
flower@donald.etdesg.trw.com (Rick Flower) writes:
>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!
My login program has no support for shadow passwords. If you want to
use such a feature please use the shadow login program.
All reports says that the shadow programs still work with PL#6, so if
you use shadow passwords, there's no need to use my package.
- Peter.
-- Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk> Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK