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Subject: ssh problem upgrading to 4.2-stable
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From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:41:14 +0000
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So, yesterday we upgraded the last machine running 3.5 here to 4.2 stable
(CVSuped on saturday I believe). All went very smoothly and everything runs
fine except for ssh. We are using openssh, and it rejects peoples
passwords with "Permission denied, please try again."

I seem to recall reading that password encryptionc hanged from MD5 to DES
between 3.x and 4.x - and I suspect this could be the problem. The
/usr/lib/libcrypt.so file is a link to libdescrypt.so, so I assume
we are now using DES passwords. Old users have MD5 passwords, but new
users are created with DES passwords. Using 'passwd' however converts them
to MD5. I have checked auth.conf, mailing list archives and done a web
search and am running out of ideas.

Am I barking up the wrong tree entirely here ?

-pete.


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