Re: openssh upgrade breaks login

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 01/25/05


Date: 25 Jan 2005 10:15:31 GMT

In article <ct4soe$p4e$1@hedeland.org>, Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> wrote:
>Well, as I've pointed out here before, the FAQ entry is rather incorrect
>wrt to the root cause in any case - the problem isn't with some OSes
>having system libraries that are unable to handle their own passwords (of
>course), but with some versions of *OpenSSL*, on some OSes, providing a
>version of crypt() that doesn't grok MD5 passwords.

Thanks, I'll update the FAQ entry.

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