Some answers from myself after experimenting and finding Wikipedia :/ On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 02:36:09PM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > Hi misc@ > > I just found out that ypcipher=old is no longer supported in login.conf. > > Since I have a mixed platform lab network using YP (FreeBSD servers) I am > curious if anyone has some experience of how portable blowfish is as a > cipher for YP passwords. > > FreeBSD man pages say that they support it. I also have lots of old and new > linux clients and just a few OpenBSD clients in the network. Linux as usual > shines being badly documented so I can not find out if any of those support > blowfish. Therefore I ask this list if anyone knows about this?
FreeBSD and OpenBSD have Blowfish in common. FreeBSD and recent Linux'es have SHA-2 (SHA-256 and SHA-512) in common. > > Are there more password ciphers planned for the future e.g sha256 and sha512? > > Do you have any other tips on how to handle logins in a mixed OS YP network? > -- > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
