2015.69 and password authentication

Peter Meerwald-Stadler pmeerw at pmeerw.net
Thu Nov 26 16:57:16 AWST 2015


> Upgrading from 2015.68 to 2015.69 on the embedded platform at $DAYJOB,
> password authentication does no longer work. This seems to be related to a
> newly added test for crypt() in the configure script, which fails to find it
> and thus disables password authentication.

same here
 
> Has anyone else been bit by this, and is there a better workaround than to
> edit options.h to unconditionally enable ENABLE_SVR_PASSWORD_AUTH (removing
> the #ifdef HAVE_CRYPT test, which works fine).

export ac_cv_func_crypt=yes
before calling configure -- just a nasty workaround, haven't looked into 
the problem yet

p.

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