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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Bad crypt? Date: 3 Oct 1995 15:59:13 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <44rj41$c76@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <kchan-0110951556250001@adagio.kcc.hawaii.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kenwrick Chan <kchan@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu> wrote: >I'm trying to compile MOO-1.7.8p4 and I finally got it to compile. It >seems to work fine, but I the password function does not seem to work >correctly. I can set a password fine, but it's useless cause it doesn't >recognize it once I set it. I had to use "LIBRARIES = -lm -lcrypt" to >compile. I dunno what the hell MOO is, but only a process with euid == 0 can actually get passwords in FreeBSD. So you have to make your MOO aware of being setuid root. (Don't simply turn on the suid bit. Unless the program is already designed to be suid-aware, you're most likely going to open security holes!) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)