Re: Passwords seem to be garbling or encrypting

["Frank Winans" <fwinans airmail net>]

I'm guessing all your passwords are like 8 or more characters long,
and you don't use MD5 password encoding...
That would match one of the listed errata for Redhat -- there's a patch for that.
"Martyn Perring" <martyn perring dial pipex com> wrote in message
news:200111011014 fA1AEFg31383 mail redhat com   
> 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
>
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