From: Kevin Sindhu (kevin.a.sindhu@Mail.AC)
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 17:17:20 EST
Hi All,
This is an automatic summary. I didn't ask this question before on
sunmanagers, but after a day of fiddling around with passwords managed
to find a bug in sun's sun management console.
Ok, simply said: smc does not support blowfish/md5 encrypted passwords
in /etc/shadow
* I wrote a little how to long time ago on changing the default
alg./password length for Solaris:
http://www.mail.ac/users/bruno/solarispasswords.html
Sun's patch manager extensively use's Solaris Management Console
server for patch admin. However if you've setup root passwd to be a
blowfish/md5 encrypted password, you'll never be authenticated.
Workaround (change back to __unix__ from blowfish/md5):
1) Change /etc/security/policy.conf back to using
CRYPT_DEFAULT=__unix__
2) Edit the password field to be null in /etc/shadow for root (be
careful here)
3) Change the password for root.
4) Restart smc. You should be able to login now.
-Kevin
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