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
fix: add "MD5_CRYPT_ENAB yes" to /etc/login.defs
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(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 "$1$".
This still is not in RHEL. Could you change it to RHEL5 non-beta?
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Moved to 5.2 so resetting flags to ?. Keeping PM_ACK and proposal for FasTrack.
Engineering feedback: shadowutils don't qualify for FasTrack in 5.2 as changes are too intrusive.
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