[syslinux] MENU / SHA1 passwords not working.
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 14 19:32:02 PST 2008
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> --On Wednesday, January 09, 2008 03:20:02 PM +0000 Simon Daniels
> <S.Daniels at uel.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> However if I hash a password using the sha1pass script the resulting
>> hashes don't work.
>
> As of syslinux-3.53 (the latest I have lying around), the code in
> com32/modules/menumain.c for checking sha1 passwords has a bug which
> causes checking of salted passwords to fail. Specifically, it tries to
> fold the salt into the hash before initing the hash context. I have
> attached a patch (untested) which should fix this problem.
>
D'oh!
OK, I feel dumb now. Right after a release, too...
-hpa
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