Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1997: Re: Oddities in RH 5.0
Re: Oddities in RH 5.0
Frank Sweetser (
rasmusin
WPI.EDU)
Sun, 28 Dec 1997 14:31:09 -0500
==> Regarding Oddities in RH 5.0; Tres Melton <treschaffee.net> adds:
tres> Please forgive me if this post is not appropriate for either of these
tres> two groups since I just joined redhat-list and this is my first post
tres> to either redhat or bugtraq (except for a previous plea for help that
tres> Aleph One answered on BUGTRAQ).
tres> I have Redhat 5.0 (that came with an Applixware update) and have
tres> installed it on my system. I have run pwconv to change to shadowed
tres> passwords. This is an extremly limited installation (nothing checked
tres> on the install options). I have then added only certain packages
tres> (some binary and some source). I have installed the shadow-utils and
tres> passwd SRPMS as well.
tres> If I run "useradd -p pass1 test1" I get the oddest thing in
tres> /etc/shadow:
tres> test1:pass1:10223:0:99999:7:::
This does look like a bug. Try reporting it to bugsredhat.com and
hurricane-listredhat.com, that's where such reports should go.
tres> /etc/shadow: test2:!:10223:0:99999:7::: /etc/passwd:
tres> test2:x:502:502::/home/test:/bin/bash
tres> looks cool so far right? Now run "passwd test2" and set the
tres> password. Now the entries read like so:
tres> /etc/shadow: test2:!:10223:0:99999:7::: /etc/passwd:
tres> test2:R0KYaK5ivSnk6:501:501::/home/test2:/bin/bash
tres> Seems to me like it updated the wrong file.
You need to add the shadow argument to the pam_pwdb.so line in
/etc/pam.d/passwd, so it looks something like this:
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow use_authtok nullok
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