[Bug 363272] Re: amd64 + vmware 1.0.9 vmware-authd broken

[dg]

Well, guys, I met this problem today, and finally I resolved this.
if you take a look on /etc/shadow, you will see the shadow password is too long than the normal case, 

============= shadow ===================
test1:$1$yzJSeIFS$FmhQgNYYD/BhapUkes0ME1:14438:0:99999:7:::
test2:$6$CJOO9de/$ddz3ZkubIO8mGacvRkhMUX3cz0n2u0I4dLZMxila8iBsXN8q2QKYnx0X1dY0CGDsTDw9xgDcWbf0ilfd/1WX01:14438:0:99999:7:::
============================
this case, test1 is using md5, and test2 using sha512, vmware doesn't support sha512.

Turn back, try to look /etc/pam.d/common-password:
there should be a line:
password       [success=1 default=ignore]      pam_unix.so obscure sha512

that caused the problem, the pam_unix.so in vmware directory can only
support md5 value, don't support sha512.

what you need to do is change it back to:
password   requisite   pam_unix.so nullok obscure md5

then using passwd to change user password, it should be ok now.


I don't know which package update common-password file, maybe caused by "pam-auth-update" in libpam-runtime 

what a stupid design.

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amd64 + vmware 1.0.9 vmware-authd broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363272
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