Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin users change password failed !

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 02:40, Hamid Hashemi wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I do have several virtualmin users which can login to webmin. Nowadays I found out that they can't change their passwords. It seems that this happened after upgrading to the latest version of webmin. The users got this message after they tried to change password : 
> 
> Failed to change password : Failed to encrypt password :
> 
> My webmin version is 1.240 and my virtualmin module version is 2.609. also I have mysql service installed in virtualmin . It seems that for changing password both system and mysql password will change.
> is there the same problem for someone else here exist or do you know why this problem happened ?! 

Hi,
This can happen if your system doesn't support for crypt() system call,
which is the case for some Slackware releases. The work-around supported
by Webmin 1.240 is to install the Crypt::UnixCrypt Perl module .. older
releases would actually just silently ignore the problem!

 - Jamie