Re: login and passwd problems with glibc (crypt)

["Vincent <Vincent" <vince1 at techemail dot com>]

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 :-).