Copyright (C) 2006 OpenWrt.org

diff -ruN busybox-1.3.1-old/networking/httpd.c busybox-1.3.1/networking/httpd.c
--- busybox-1.3.1-old/networking/httpd.c	2006-12-28 18:17:23.000000000 +0100
+++ busybox-1.3.1/networking/httpd.c	2006-12-28 19:56:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -1381,12 +1381,26 @@
 			if (ENABLE_FEATURE_HTTPD_AUTH_MD5) {
 				char *cipher;
 				char *pp;
+				char *ppnew = NULL;
+				struct passwd *pwd = NULL;
 
 				if (strncmp(p, request, u-request) != 0) {
 					/* user uncompared */
 					continue;
 				}
 				pp = strchr(p, ':');
+				if(pp && pp[1] == '$' && pp[2] == 'p' &&
+						 pp[3] == '$' && pp[4] &&
+					 (pwd = getpwnam(&pp[4])) != NULL) {
+					if(pwd->pw_passwd && pwd->pw_passwd[0] == '!') {
+						prev = NULL;
+						continue;
+					}
+					ppnew = xrealloc(ppnew, 5 + strlen(pwd->pw_passwd));
+					ppnew[0] = ':';
+					strcpy(ppnew + 1, pwd->pw_passwd);
+					pp = ppnew;
+				}
 				if (pp && pp[1] == '$' && pp[2] == '1' &&
 						pp[3] == '$' && pp[4]) {
 					pp++;
@@ -1396,6 +1410,10 @@
 					/* unauthorized */
 					continue;
 				}
+				if (ppnew) {
+					free(ppnew);
+					ppnew = NULL;
+				}
 			}
 
 			if (strcmp(p, request) == 0) {