bugGNU Screen - Bugs: bug #23978, Screen shouldn't use crypt

 
 

bug #23978: Screen shouldn't use crypt

Submitter:  Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Submitted:  Fri 01 Aug 2008 06:42:23 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  * 7 - High Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  4.6.1
Work Required:  0 - Hours
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Thu 07 Jun 2018 12:17:33 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This report can be closed since we have 'shadow password' support (uses native 'salt' $id from shadow file).

For me info see git commits:
d7ef5114c2ffc3aa7513fb4f077befbd7b03be9e
dc9542b26a874e48c27b8e9c8699266fc7918408

Alexander Naumov <anaumov>
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Fri 01 Aug 2008 06:42:23 PM UTC, original submission:  

Unix crypt(3) suffers from an 8-significant-chars limit, which sucks.

Or, should at least check if it supports MD5 passwords, and use that mode when available.

A better solution would be to use MD5 internally. The only downside to that is that people who are used to giving the crypted password as an argument to the password command, will find it no longer works the way it used to (perhaps we should disable that form, unless an -m option is also provided, or perhaps accept them and in that case fall back on crypt).

Could consider using gnulib's MD5 algorithm. If we go that route, though, integrating gnulib with screen would need to wait until after 4.1.0 is released.

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>

 

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    2018-06-07 anaumov StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Assigned tomicahcowan None
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Planned ReleaseLater 4.6.1
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    2008-08-01 micahcowan Priority5 - Normal 7 - High

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