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Re: login and passwd problems with glibc (crypt)
- To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
- Subject: Re: login and passwd problems with glibc (crypt)
- From: "Vincent <Vincent" <vince1 at techemail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:18:47 -0500 (CDT)
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Karsten Hopp writes:
> I suppose you need the crypt addon for glibc and you'll have to
> configure it with
> --enable-add-ons=crypt
>
> Karsten
>
> Vincent wrote:
> >
> > I cannot get login and passwd to work with glibc.
> >
> > I am running:
> > AMD K6 processor
> > linux-kernel-2.4.0-test4
> > glibc-2.1.3
> > configured with
> > configure --host=i386-pc-linux-gnu --enable-add-ons \
> > --prefix=/usr \
> > --disable-sanity-checks
Thanks for replying, but as I mentioned in my posting, I tried both
with and without the crypt addon. It is linked with libcrypt.
# ldd /usr/bin/passwd
libshadow.so.0 => /lib/libshadow.so.0 (0x40018000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4002e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4005b000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
glibc still generated this library without the crypt addon, apparently
with md5 encryption. Besides, it would be a problem if the crypt
addon was required to function because that would prevent
distributions in the US from distributing pre-compiled glibc packages
outside the US. Our infinitely wise politicians would not want to
take a chance on the developers of the encryption code getting a copy
of their own code back :-).