On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:41:14AM +0000, Pete French wrote:
> So, yesterday we upgraded the last machine running 3.5 here to 4.2 stable
> (CVSuped on saturday I believe). All went very smoothly and everything runs
> fine except for ssh. We are using openssh, and it rejects peoples
> passwords with "Permission denied, please try again."
> 
> I seem to recall reading that password encryptionc hanged from MD5 to DES
> between 3.x and 4.x - and I suspect this could be the problem. The
> /usr/lib/libcrypt.so file is a link to libdescrypt.so, so I assume
> we are now using DES passwords. Old users have MD5 passwords, but new
> users are created with DES passwords. Using 'passwd' however converts them
> to MD5. I have checked auth.conf, mailing list archives and done a web
> search and am running out of ideas.
> 

There is an issue with /etc/pam.conf. You can overwrite it with the one
under /usr/src. This worked for me.

Also there is another pithole (i fell into): sshd dies because there is an
obsolete option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, that you need to remove.
ConnectionsPerPeriod 5/10


> Am I barking up the wrong tree entirely here ?
> 
> -pete.
> 
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