At 01:56 PM 6/8/02 -0700, Alan Womack wrote: >How can I tell if each layer of my authentication is working or not working?
At this level of abstraction, there is no meaningful answer to the question. Unless you think "check each of them, one by one" is meaningful advice (I don't). >eg. how do I tell if I use/need shadow passwords? To tell if your system *uses* shadow passwords, see if it has a file called /erc/shadow . Also check that the password field in each entry of /etc/password contains only a single "x" character. Whether you "need" shadow passwords? They are pretty much the standard now for any Linux system that is connected to the Internet. >How do I tell if I have md5 and what encryption method it is using? Depends on the details of your setup. You might look for the MD5 flag in any of these locations: /etc/pam.conf, /etc/pam.d/passwd, or (just barely possible) /etc/login.defs . >I ask because when I enable my authconfig to use ldap, I can no longer log >in, but there are several changes that occur to enable ldap and I am not >sure ldap is the actual non functional portion of the whole mess. I don't use ldap here. Do the logs tell you anything you (or we) might consider informative? -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
