RE: [webmin-l] Change Password error

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

Hi Dave,
That is definately a bug..
What does the user in question have in the password field of his entry in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow? Or more importantly, if you edit him in the Users and Groups module, does his encrypted password show up properly?

 - Jamie

-----Original Message-----

From:  Dave Isaacs <dav...@en...>
Subj:  RE: [webmin-l] Change Password error
Date:  Fri 17 Feb 2006 6:53 am
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To:  "'web...@li...'" <web...@li...>

Sorry, I have to take that back.  This doesn't work.
 
Yes, it allows me to change the password, but now I can put anything in the
"Old Password" field and have it work.  That's bad.
 
Dave I
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: web...@li...
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Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:23 PM
To: 'web...@li...'
Subject: RE: [webmin-l] Change Password error



That works.  Thanks! 

Dave I 

-----Original Message----- 
From: web...@li...
[mailto:web...@li...
<mailto:web...@li...> ] On Behalf Of Jamie
Cameron

Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:09 PM 
To: web...@li... 
Subject: RE: [webmin-l] Change Password error 


Hi Dave, 
Basically, all I did was change the function unix_crypt in the file
web-lib-funcs.pl to: 

# unix_crypt(password, salt) 
# Performs Unix encryption on a password, using crypt() or Crypt::UnixCrypt
sub unix_crypt { local ($pass, $salt) = @_; 
return "" if (!$salt);   # same as real crypt 
local $rv = eval "crypt(\$pass, \$salt)"; 
local $err = $@; 
return $rv if ($rv && !$@); 
eval "use Crypt::UnixCrypt"; 
if (!$@) { 
        return Crypt::UnixCrypt::crypt($pass, $salt); 
        } 
else { 
        &error("Failed to encrypt password : $err"); 
        } 
} 

You could do the same thing by directly editing that file in your copy of
Webmin. 

 - Jamie 

On 16/Feb/2006 00:54 Dave Isaacs wrote .. 
> Is it possible to give me details (or at least hints) of what need to 
> be fixed?  I have to deliver a production system by the end of the 
> month and I have no working change password feature. 
>  
> Thanks 
>  
> Dave I 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: web...@li... 
> [mailto:web...@li...
<mailto:web...@li...> ] On Behalf Of Jamie 
> Cameron 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:39 PM 
> To: web...@li... 
> Subject: RE: [webmin-l] Change Password error 
> 
> 
> There is another way it could happen - but I will deal with that in 

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