2015.69 and password authentication

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Thu Nov 26 17:37:25 AWST 2015


I'll sort out a new release to fix this later today.

Cheers,
Matt

On 26 November 2015 4:57:16 pm AWST, Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw at pmeerw.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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