Re: MV 3.12: MV Crashes after failed login

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

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>******    message to minivend-users from Marius Schaefer
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>Hi,
>
>when I try to logon as a user which does not exists, I get the
>errormessage "Fatal Error - User does not exists".
>Fine.
>But when I try to login with an useraccount which exists and a wrong
>password, I get "Fatal Error - Password does not match" and MV crashes.
>There is no entry in my error.logs.
>
>Has anybody any ideas, hints?
>
>Thank you.
>Marius
>

I have a guess, AFAIK minivend uses crypt. To protect a system from sneaky
little programs that search for simple passwords, the version of crypt
installed on a system may possibly terminate the calling program after a
certain number of unsuccessful calls, e.g. 1.

There are many more reasons why crypt may not work in a perl installation,
but check CPAN for other possibilities. UserDB authentication should work
with other algorithms.

Good luck

Frank

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Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung


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