On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:26 -0300, Antonio Souto wrote: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:03:06 +0000, Robbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Its to do with what the passwords are encrypted with in /etc/shadow > > (or /etc/passwd), think it defaults to DES. > > > > Not sure about yellow pages, but looking at system_auth on my pc the > > pam_unix line has it to be encrypted in MD5. > > > > password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok md5 shadow > > use_authtok > > I have this same line in my system-auth file... > The problem persist...
I re-read your message and a further google, DES56 could only handle 8 characters, MD5 does more (http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/pam_cracklib.html),. Not sure what your issue is, perhaps NIS is encrypting to DES and ignoring pam_unix? -- [email protected] mailing list
