Re: login and passwd problems with glibc (crypt)

[Gael Queri <gqueri at mail dot dotcom dot fr>]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:18:47PM -0500, Vincent <Vincent wrote:
> 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 :-).

Vincent, could you try running portmap (if it's not here) ?
just do as root
# /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap

(if it fails try # /usr/sbin/portmap)

it's a weird bug that appeared with the 2.3.99 kernel which could
be the origin of this problem

	regards, gael