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From: pcc@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Craine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp/password encryption
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Date: 15 Mar 91 16:59:00 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.143214.11758@ccs.carleton.ca>
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In article <1991Mar14.143214.11758@ccs.carleton.ca>,
holtz@zonker.cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz) writes:
|> 
|> The registries on the SR10.2 node were created from the 9.7 registry
|> using cvtrgy.
|> 
|> It seems that the encrypted password in /etc/passwd does not match
|> the password encrypted by crypt(), thus preventing users from "logging
|> in" via ftpd.
|> 
|> Is this a known problem, or am I misunderstanding the problem?
|> Is there anything I can do about it?
|> 
|> --

Ah yes.  When a password is created and stored in an SR10 registry, the
encryption is, effectively, done by crypt(), so the normal comparison
techniques work fine.  However, SR9 did not use this encryption technique.
The SR10 registry can understand SR9-ish encryption, so when you cvtrgy,
the password will still be SR9-style encryption.

Your only hope (that I know of, anyway) is to have your master registy on
SR10, and do cvtrgy -from9to10's to get the info down to the SR9 side.

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