Hi, Dropbear 2015.70 released now fixes password server authentication on Linux. It's a bit of an embarassing mistake, apologies for that. Commenting out the test in options.h is a fine workaround.
Cheers, Matt On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 05:37:25PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote: > I'll sort out a new release to fix this later today. > > Cheers, > Matt > > On 26 November 2015 4:57:16 pm AWST, Peter Meerwald-Stadler > <pme...@pmeerw.net> wrote: > > > >> Upgrading from 2015.68 to 2015.69 on the embedded platform at > >$DAYJOB, > >> password authentication does no longer work. This seems to be related > >to a > >> newly added test for crypt() in the configure script, which fails to > >find it > >> and thus disables password authentication. > > > >same here > > > >> Has anyone else been bit by this, and is there a better workaround > >than to > >> edit options.h to unconditionally enable ENABLE_SVR_PASSWORD_AUTH > >(removing > >> the #ifdef HAVE_CRYPT test, which works fine). > > > >export ac_cv_func_crypt=yes > >before calling configure -- just a nasty workaround, haven't looked > >into > >the problem yet > > > >p. >
