Re: netatalk will not accept password with 1.4b2+asun2.1.4


Subject: Re: netatalk will not accept password with 1.4b2+asun2.1.4
From: Scott R. Every (scott@emji.net)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 18:29:51 EDT


--On Thursday, June 1, 2000 12:11 AM +0200 Patrik Schindler
<poc@pocnet.net> wrote:

> At 18:00 Uhr -0400 31.05.2000, Scott R. Every wrote:
>
>> so no version of the 2.1.4 series will work?
>
> 2.1.4 works for me and many others very fine.

sorry, with cleartext pw's. i know it works, but if you can't login its
not very useful.

>
>> why was this done?
>
> Usually, encrypted passwords will improve security. So it was done.
>
> I had problems because I don't use PAM and had to apply the separate
> -lcrypt to the Makefile and something in the source to get it working.

i'm using slackware 7.0 which does support glic and crypt. what
authentication method would you suggest that
1) does not use PAM
2) does not require anything special on the client side

thanx

s

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