[rt-users] err or on attempted password change (rt3.4)

[Duncan Hutty]

As a new RT admin, I am following
http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?ManualInstallation
which includes:
"4) Change the password. Root's password for the web interface is
password. Not changing this is a security risk."

Sounds like good advice to me so I went into the web UI, logged in as
root successfully and attempted to change the password. I entered new
values in the 'New Password' & 'Retype Password' fields and clicked
'Save Preferences'.
RT returned: 

System error
error:          The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive
paranoia. at /usr/local/rt3/lib/RT/User_Overlay.pm line 1119.
context:
...
1115:   return(1);
1116:   }
1117:
1118:   # if it's a historical password we say ok.
1119:   if ($self->__Value('Password') eq crypt($value,
$self->__Value('Password'))
1120:   or $self->_GeneratePasswordBase64($value) eq
$self->__Value('Password'))
1121:   {
1122:   # ...but upgrade the legacy password inplace.
1123:   $self->SUPER::SetPassword( $self->_GeneratePassword($value) );
...
code stack:     /usr/local/rt3/lib/RT/User_Overlay.pm:1119
/usr/local/rt3/share/html/User/Prefs.html:229
/usr/local/rt3/share/html/autohandler:215

I searched around in the archives a while, and found most posts
concerning password were permissions issues, so no luck.

Here is my environment:

rt-3.4.0
apache-1.3.33
mod_perl-1.29
mysql-4.1.7
perl-5.8.3

-- 
Duncan Hutty
System Administrator
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University