On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 17:33 -0400, Prasun Gera wrote: > I had a look at ldap/servers/plugins/pwdstorage/crypt_pwd.c, and it looks > like it is hardcoded in crypt_pw_enc, which uses the default DES crypt > method. This only affects the encoding. The verification of passwords works > with any of MD5 or SHA-* schemes since the underlying crypt function in > recent glibcs supports them. Would it make sense to add the other options > to the encoding function ?
You should probably pose that question to the 389ds team. >From the IPA pov, these hashes are legacy and not needed because we *strongly* discourage users from distributing hashes around and recommend hashes are not made available. Rather users should use kerberos, or as a less desirable alternative LDAP simple binds to authenticate. Brute forcing weak passwords even w/o random tables is easy these days with the available on-demand computing power provided by cloud operators, so distributing hashes is riskier than ever, especially old hashes based on DES or MD5, but SHA-1 is not far down the list. HTH, Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project
