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FS#68435 - Bug

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by eric.p.wills (eric.p.wills) - Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 13:37 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 13:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
It appears that [pam] can't handle password hashes generated using the default crypt(3) method (yescrypt). This is problematic when using tools that generate settings based on those defaults and don't hardcode a known working hash (for example sha512) such as [shadow] does currently in /etc/pam.d/.

Additional info:
* package versions:
* pam 1.4.0-3
* libxcrypt 4.4.17-1
* shadow 4.8.1-4
* systemd 246.6-1
* glibc 2.32-5

Steps to reproduce:
The problem originally manifested itself in that that I wasn't able to log in as root user after setting the password using `systemd-firstboot --force --root-password=`. In the following I've set the root password and subsequently tried to change to root using `su
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 13:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#68410 

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