Re: Passwords seem to be garbling or encrypting

[Martyn Perring <martyn perring dial pipex com>]

Hi all,

This problem is now fixed. Apparently there is a bug in the PAM authentication modules that ship in RH7.2 (Advisory RHBA-2001-127-07) which causes problems with password longer than 8 characters (like mine!). 

Therefore, I used up2date to download and install the latest and greatest version, pam-0.75-16.i386.rpm.

Once this had been installed I reset my user and root passwords and lo! they now work. Now to test the NIS end of things. . . 

Regards,

Martyn Perring

01/11/2001 10:13:35, Martyn Perring <martyn perring dial pipex com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've just finished a custom install of RH7.2 on a COMPAQ Deskpro 4000.
>
>Once the installation completed I booted up into KDE but whenever I try to login using my assigned password, both local and NIS I get an 'incorrect password' error.  This happens as both the user I defined during installation 
and more worryingly as root.
>
>Currently I have had to null the passwords for both users - not very secure!
>
>Oddly, if I use xscreensaver, this is happy to accept my user password and uses NIS to authenticate my password properly - it will not accept a null password.  This leads me to suspect that the login process is either encrypting 
or garbling the password entries.
>
>Anybody got any ideas what's happening here and how to fix it?  If I can't fix this soon I'll have to revert back to a  more useable version of RH, either 7.0 or 7.1, I can't allow this machine to remain unprotected.
>
>Regards,
>
>Martyn Perring
>