Bug 9971 - ppp not enabled for shadow passwords
Summary: ppp not enabled for shadow passwords
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ppp
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported: 2000-03-05 07:28 UTC by markw
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-24 23:33:14 UTC
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Description markw 2000-03-05 07:28:55 UTC
Out of the box, pppd doesn't support shadow passwords when configured for
dialup server.   Rebuilding the src.rpm with shadow support cures this
problem.   However an interim fix at the customers site was to disable
shadow passwords, since this was a non network connected box.   However,
once the passwords were disabled we were unable to set passwords for a new
user.  Go figure. :)

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-03-06 13:44:59 UTC
pppd is compiled with support for pluggable authentication modules, which
supports shadow passwords as a configuration option.  What are the contents of
your /etc/pam.d/ppp file?

Comment 2 Stephen John Smoogen 2003-01-24 23:33:14 UTC
Bug 9971 has been closed because no additional information was given by original
bug reporter since Year 2000. 


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