You Cannot Login on Applix Anyware

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions up to (including) 7.2
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Applix: Version 4.4.1, 4.4.2

Symptom:

You have started Applix Anyware on your server and you have logged in with your user name and password. However, the application does not start in your browser. The data are transferred but nothing else occurs.

Cause:

You are workind on the server with a local user (i.e. not via NIS/NIS+ or a PAM method). The password of this user is stored in encrypted form in the file /etc/shadow. Unfortunately, Anyware is not able to interpret this information correctly because of a programming error.

Solution:

Unfortunately, the solution is rather inelegant: the encrypted password has to be copied from the shadow file into the correct password file.
  1. Log in to the system as root.
  2. Copy the encrypted password of the user from the file /etc/shadow to the file /etc/passwd.
  3. Watch out while performing this operation!

Keywords: APPLIX, ANYWARE, LOGIN, JAVA

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