What's the URL of the page containing the problem?
login page
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. For a user with an MD5 password (instead of the more standard DES
password), try to login using the NIS backend
2.
3.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The user should be able to login with a DES or MD5 password
What operating system are you using? What browser?
Running on Linux
Please provide any additional information below.
Here's a patch to accounts/backends.py that fixes the problem:
Index: backends.py
===================================================================
--- backends.py (revision 1571)
+++ backends.py (working copy)
@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@
try:
passwd = nis.match(username, 'passwd').split(':')
original_crypted = passwd[1]
- new_crypted = crypt.crypt(password, original_crypted[:2])
+ salt = original_crypted[:2]
+ if( original_crypted[0:3] == '$1$' ):
+ # Get MD5 salt
+ salt = '$1$' + original_crypted.split('$')[2]
+
+ new_crypted = crypt.crypt(password, salt)
if original_crypted == new_crypted:
return self.get_or_create_user(username, passwd)
