I compiled conserver 7.2.1 today on our console server, and ran into a
problem. While the software compiled fine, and allowed me to talk to the
consoles with no problem, it no longer seems to be checking the password
of the user using it. I haven't changed the conserver.passwd file that I've
been using for a while, and all of its entries are of the form:
<username>:*passwd*:any
I used the following options to confire when I compiled it:
/configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-master=<our console server> --sysconfdir=/etc --with-logfile=/home/console.logs/conserver
One thing that I noticed during the configuration process were the following
lines:
checking for crypt.h... yes
checking for library containing crypt... none required
I tried explicitly telling it to use -lcrypt by trying to use the configure
option --with-PACKAGE=crypt, but that had no effect. I also tried adding
the string -lcrypt to the LIBS line in the conserver and console Makefiles.
That didn't have any effect either. I even tried making the conserver.passwd
files readable by any user, to no effect.
The system I am building it on is an UltraSparc 5 with an Aurora Technologies
Aries serial port expander. As I said, the console part of it works fine -
I just want to make sure that it checks passwords. If anyone has an idea
about what could be wrong, please let me know.
Thanks,
Brian
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Brian Sebby (sebby@anl.gov) | Distributed Computing Administration
Phone: +1 630.252.9935 | Electronics and Computing Technologies
Fax: +1 630.252.9689 | Argonne National Laboratory
problem. While the software compiled fine, and allowed me to talk to the
consoles with no problem, it no longer seems to be checking the password
of the user using it. I haven't changed the conserver.passwd file that I've
been using for a while, and all of its entries are of the form:
<username>:*passwd*:any
I used the following options to confire when I compiled it:
/configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-master=<our console server> --sysconfdir=/etc --with-logfile=/home/console.logs/conserver
One thing that I noticed during the configuration process were the following
lines:
checking for crypt.h... yes
checking for library containing crypt... none required
I tried explicitly telling it to use -lcrypt by trying to use the configure
option --with-PACKAGE=crypt, but that had no effect. I also tried adding
the string -lcrypt to the LIBS line in the conserver and console Makefiles.
That didn't have any effect either. I even tried making the conserver.passwd
files readable by any user, to no effect.
The system I am building it on is an UltraSparc 5 with an Aurora Technologies
Aries serial port expander. As I said, the console part of it works fine -
I just want to make sure that it checks passwords. If anyone has an idea
about what could be wrong, please let me know.
Thanks,
Brian
--
Brian Sebby (sebby@anl.gov) | Distributed Computing Administration
Phone: +1 630.252.9935 | Electronics and Computing Technologies
Fax: +1 630.252.9689 | Argonne National Laboratory