"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing that occured to me is that we don't support MD5 passwords (I > can't find anything in the source that says that we do support them, > only that we support crypt() passwords), this might have caused our > passwd tarnslator to barf.
md5 passwords is a feature of the the crypt() function in glibc. Worked fine last time I tried it (ok, that wasn't on the hurd, but I see no reason why that part of glibc should be system dependent). To configure your system to actually *use* md5 passwords is a question of using the right magic salt when creating new password entries, which probably requires some level of support in the passwd program. /Niels
