Failed password

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Gene Imes wrote:

> I compiled openssh-1.2.1pre25.tar.gz with openssl-0.9.4.tar.gz and
> configured openssh like so:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --without-pam
> 
> This is on a Slackware 7.0 Linux box, no PAM, with shadowed
> passwords, and no NIS.

Are you using MD5 passwords? You can tell if your crypted passwords
in /etc/shadow begin with '$1$'. If so, you need to enable 
--with-md5-passwords

Damien

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