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WWWAdmin works, but the password parts don't!

• Short Answer:

  This is most likely because you do not have the crypt function available to use or the crypt function on your OS us different than the one on the machine I created these scripts on.

  Long Answer:

  Here are some fixes:

  FreeBSD Changes:

  • From: Ron Crisco 
    To: mattw@worldwidemart.com
    Subject: FIXED - WWWBOARD wwwadmin.pl password problem
    
    The problem was the difference in FreeBSD's crypt.
    The default passwd.txt file (password WebBoard) should be:
    
        WebAdmin:$1$ae$eVdFF2d.W9C3JSO3qluZ70
    
    And the wwwadmin.pl file must be changed, too. 
    Three occurrences of
    
        substr($passwd, 0, 2)
    
    were changed to
    
        substr($passwd, 3, 2)

  Red Hat Commercial Linux 2.0

  • I was told by Mark Reynolds that under Red Hat Commercial Linux 2.0 with a Kernel 1.2.13 on a i586 he had to change the password.txt file to read:

    WebAdmin:aeb/uHhRv6x2LQvxyii4Azf1

  Systems Not Supporting Crypt (Macintosh, Windows, etc..):

  • Near line 521 in wwwadmin.pl, you will see a block of code which looks like:

       $test_passwd = crypt($FORM{'password'}, substr($passwd, 0, 2));
       if ($test_passwd eq $passwd && $FORM{'username'} eq $username) {
          open(PASSWD,">$basedir/$passwd_file") || &error(no_change);
          $new_password = crypt($FORM{'passwd_1'}, substr($passwd, 0, 2));
    ...

    Change this to:

       if ($FORM{'password'} eq $passwd && $FORM{'username'} eq $username) {
          open(PASSWD,">$basedir/$passwd_file") || &error(no_change);
          $new_password = $FORM{'passwd_1'};
    ...

    Then, on line 678 (almost the end) you will find a block of code:

       $test_passwd = crypt($FORM{'password'}, substr($passwd, 0, 2));
       if (!($test_passwd eq $passwd && $FORM{'username'} eq $username)) {
          &error(bad_combo);
       }

    Change this to:

       if (!($FORM{'password'} eq $passwd && $FORM{'username'} eq $username)) {
          &error(bad_combo);
       }

    Then, open up passwd.txt (or whatever you renamed your password file to) and change the line from:

    WebAdmin:aepTOqxOi4i8U

    To:

    WebAdmin:WebBoard

    Or whatever you want your new username:password combination to be.

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