On Monday, January 6, 2014 4:33:57 PM UTC-8, Romeo Theriault wrote:
>
> Not sure I'm going to answer your question but I'd recommend that you use 
> the highest level of password encryption your version of unix supports. On 
> modern Linux boxes this is SHA512. I'm not sure about AIX. I don't 
> *believe* openssl passwd allows you to generate SHA512 encrypted passwords. 
> I use the python library passlib [1] for this.  Easy enough to do:
>
 
Thanks Romeo, AIX can handle SMD5, SHA-256 and SHA-512... (plus blowfish on 
the server I checked).  so I could say that we should use SHA-512 going 
forward.  That still leaves me with the question as to how I handle them... 
 Do I store an AIX password and a Linux password for every user, do I munge 
the passwords when I use them, or do I add a potentially ugly hack to 
Ansible that would take care of the issue?

I'm leaning towards the second option myself...  It's not entirely clean, 
but it does seem like a reasonable way to go.

Adam

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