Login Problem

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Since I updated my Photon to 1.14A I’ve had a weird login
problem. If the ID I use to log in using the main Photon
screen has a password, I can’t get in. Once in, I can
use “login” to login into the same account with the same
password. Anyone know what this is about?

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Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

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Mitchell Schoenbrun <maschoen@pobox.com> wrote:

Since I updated my Photon to 1.14A I’ve had a weird login
problem. If the ID I use to log in using the main Photon
screen has a password, I can’t get in. Once in, I can
use “login” to login into the same account with the same
password. Anyone know what this is about?

My guess would be that phlogin was linked with the Unix version of
crypt() and doesn’t understand the old qnx passwords.

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Wojtek Lerch (wojtek@qnx.com) QNX Software Systems Ltd.

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Previously, Wojtek Lerch wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

My guess would be that phlogin was linked with the Unix version of
crypt() and doesn’t understand the old qnx passwords.

And how would I fix this situation? I didn’t compile phlogin,
nor do I have the source.


Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

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Mitchell Schoenbrun <maschoen@pobox.com> wrote:

Previously, Wojtek Lerch wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

My guess would be that phlogin was linked with the Unix version of
crypt() and doesn’t understand the old qnx passwords.

And how would I fix this situation? I didn’t compile phlogin,
nor do I have the source.

I know.

A new version of phlogin will have to be built and made available.

For now, you can try installing the older version of phlogin. Or,
perhaps, switching everything else to Unix passwords.

Actually, it may be the other way around – if have the “security patch”
installed that has the Unix versions of login and passwd and stuff, this
would mean that the new phlogin is using the old encryption. I’m not
sure which way it was built…

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Wojtek Lerch (wojtek@qnx.com) QNX Software Systems Ltd.