MD5 password confirmation fails after update to OpenSSH 3.3 on SuSE 7.3

Hello, this morning I updated all linux servers running SuSE 7.3 to OpenSSH 3.3. Now I am not able to login via ssh anymore - password confirmation fails. First I tought, that sshd is not allowed to read /etc/shadow, but this was not the case. "harden_suse" made my /etc/shadow passwords be encrypted with MD5. After adding a new user with yast the new user's password was only DES encrypted. With this user I am able to login, with users who has got MD5 encrypted passwords I'm not able to login via ssh. Am I right, that the new sshd has got problems with MD5 password? What can I do now? Regards, Thomas