Title: [Oscar-devel] Re: [Oscar-users] Mandriva 2006 status report - openssh "bug" identified
Hi Fernando:
 
"!!" in the shadow file means there is no corresponding password associated with that user account, i.e. you cannot ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] and log in (because there is no password), but "su - oscartst" as root would work.
 
I do not think we want to change this behavior.
 
What did the Mandriva folks say regarding this issue?
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Fernando Laudares Camargos
Sent: Wed 08/02/2006 08:19
To: Fernando Laudares Camargos
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [Oscar-devel] Re: [Oscar-users] Mandriva 2006 status report - openssh "bug" identified

Fernando Laudares Camargos a écrit :
> 2) The problem with *openssh* newer than 3.6 (as 3.9 in Mandrake 10.1
> and 4.2 in Mandriva 2006) is that the user 'oscartst' have his ssh
> access 'locked' by default. I have not completed my study at this
> question yet, but the solution I used was manually unlock the user (in
> all nodes) with the command 'passwd -u oscartst -f'.

Well, I guess I was wrong here. Actually, that works, but this is probably not the right way to do it.
When the cluster is installed, the /etc/shadow file show the following line for the user oscartst:

oscartst:!!:13186:0:99999:7:::

Another regular user, "laudares" (myself), has this line in the same file.

laudares:$1$Jck9.vTD$8sKdM32ytVh7svBv9OYfi/:13186:0:99999:7:::

The difference between the two is that the "field" for the password is filled by "!!" for oscartst and by "$1$Jck9.vTD$8sKdM32ytVh7svBv9OYfi/" for laudares.

When I try to connect from the server to the node and back with the user laudares, it works (with that I mean `It does not ask for my passwd`), but not when I try that with oscartst.

If I change the password of oscartst with the command "passwd oscartst", its line in the shadow file is replaced by one similar to that of laudares, and ssh (without password) works. But then I have to do this with all nodes, or have this line changed in the image, before to spread it across the cluster.

I would like to hear your comments about that, since it`s one of the main problems we`re having with Mandriva after the 10.0 version.

Thanks,
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