Bug 218629

Summary:	shadow-utils does not use MD5 encryption by default.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	dkelson, ftaylor, mmalik, sgrubb
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Description Peter Vrabec 2006-12-06 15:51:59 UTC

Description of problem:
System is setup to use MD5 encryption by default, but shadow-utils doesn't 
reflect it. This affects newusers and chpasswd at least.


How reproducible:
# echo "someUser:newPassword" | chpasswd
or
# echo "newUser:password:600:600:::/bin/bash" | newusers
and see /etc/shadow

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2006-12-06 15:57:47 UTC

fix: add "MD5_CRYPT_ENAB yes" to /etc/login.defs

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2006-12-06 16:00:36 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 3 Peter Vrabec 2006-12-11 13:48:35 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
...
> # echo "newUser:password:600:600:::/bin/bash" | newusers
> and see /etc/shadow

newUser's password doesn't start with MD5 prefix "$1$".

Comment 5 Forrest Taylor 2007-05-11 16:54:26 UTC

This still is not in RHEL.  Could you change it to RHEL5 non-beta?

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-05 20:48:34 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Since this
bugzilla is in a component that is not approved for the current
release, it has been closed with resolution deferred.  You may
reopen this bugzilla for consideration in the next release.

Comment 10 Daniel Riek 2007-10-03 19:49:25 UTC

Moved to 5.2 so resetting flags to ?. Keeping PM_ACK and proposal for FasTrack.

Comment 11 Daniel Riek 2007-10-05 16:49:11 UTC

Engineering feedback: shadowutils don't qualify for FasTrack in 5.2 as changes
are too intrusive.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:36:28 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0325.html