problems logging in from 1.2.2 client to 1.2.1pre24 server

Marc Haber Marc.Haber-lists at gmx.de
Wed Feb 2 19:21:48 EST 2000


On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:44:27 -0800, you wrote:
>>I found out today that I can log in to both boxes using RSA
>>authentication, but login to one of the servers still fails when I try
>>to do plain password authentication. The error message is somewhat
>>strange.
>
>Try enabling shadow passwords.

Enabled on all three systems. Can this have something to do with
crypt(3)/MD5 password encryption? I don't know whether this is being
used on the server that doesn't allow me to log in using passwords.
However, PAM should handle that transparently, right?

Greetings
Marc

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