CVS update: samba/source/auth

[Andrew Bartlett]

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:56:20PM -0400, abartlet at samba.org wrote:
> > Back our volker's patch as was breaking the build.
> 
> Sorry for breaking it. On my machine it compiled well

Not as actually commited - you had an undeclared variable in there.

>, I even tested against
> smbclient, NT4 and W2k. At least on Linux with shadow passwords you do not get
> the password salt from /etc/passwd but from /etc/shadow. On my machine an 'x'
> ended up in the salt, which was definitely not what crypt wanted to see.
> 
> What kind of fix do you propose? Changing to a default of encrypted passwords
> should IMHO not mean we do not support plaintext at all anymore.

I don't mind fixing it - I was mainly worried about the compile
failure.  Things that don't compile don't ususally look tested ;-)

I also just want to look over it carefully, as much for my own benifit
in understanding this crazy stuff.

Andrew Bartlett

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