Bug/feature: Slackware + openssh 2.1 does not work

[Devon Bleak]

hello,

i run slackware 7.x on more than a few machines, all of which have had
openssh 2.1.0 up to 2.3.0 installed on them and working fine.  check
your /etc/shadow file format.  if the encrypted passwords start with
$1$, then you'll need to give the configure script the
--with-md5-passwords switch.  if they don't, then you'll have to omit
that switch.  openssh doesn't use the crypt function from libcrypt (part
of glibc), it uses its own, which is why you have to tell it
explicitly.  the glibc crypt has built-in functionality to detect md5
passwords (based on the $1$ at the beginning of the string).

devon

vovic wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> I've tried to install openssh to my Linux Slackware boxes, but it works
> only for connecting to other hosts.
> The bug is in the auth-passwd.c of pppd. Slackware has it's own (or just
> an another) version of shadow package (if I've understood the
> problem correctly) with it's own password encryption manner.
> I do not use stuff like Kerberos, PAM etc.
> As a result, the line
> encrypted_password=crypt(password,salt);
> creates an encrypted password that is different than the stored in
> /etc/shadow .
> I do not know the password encryption used in Slackware, but ssh (not
> OpenSSH) works fine.
> So, it is advisable for auth-passwd.c maintainer to connect to Slackware
> developers or to look to the ssh distribution in order to fix this.
> Unfortunally, my time for this problem solving has exhausted, and I cannot
> do this myself :( .
> Yours, Voznesensky Vladimir, Moscow, Russia.