Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Shadow Password
From: Hanno Foest (h.foest@hbk-bs.de)
Date: Fri Nov 21 1997 - 15:09:51 EST
Hi!
> But we can't succed in using it together with shadow
> passwords. While compiling with the shadow option -DHAS_SHADOW turned
> on, it always stops with an error message:
>
> poppassd.o: In function `chkPass':
> poppassd.o(.text+0xb20): undefined reference to `pw_encrypt'
> make: *** [poppassd] Error 1
Sounds familiar, I had this with Qualcomm's (Eudora is from Qualcomm!)
qpopper2.4 pop3 daemon package when switching to shadow passwords on a
RedHat 4.2 Linux system.
pw_encrypt is the crypt(3) equivalent for double-length passwords. Since
there are security problems with double-length passwords, a lot of
unixes don't have this function. For some reason this isn't detected.
Just change pw_encrypt to crypt and it should work.
> Because the source file is date May 1995, I think there should be
> an newer one. I received the files in a package named "poppassd-1.2".
It is definetely a good idea to use the latest version of the package.
It sounds interesting, I'll have a look into it myself.
Hanno
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