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... 
> 
> > 
> > /usr/share/doc/pam-0.77-r6/modules has some docs that you might be
> > helpful to you...
> 
> Yes, i am reading... :)

This looks like it may be the reason...
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&threadm=2yC8m-5vm-25%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=20&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dnis%2Blinux%2Bmd5%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:unofficial%26selm%3D2yC8m-5vm-25%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D20


The second post (in the above link) is correct though, if your that
concerned regarding security kerberos should be used.



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