Great!! Thanks Miguel! That's all I needed to know. I
didnt know salt becomes the first 11 chars. I reverted
to DES using the authconfig utility, but you're right,
im going back :)
Christie
--- "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In /etc/pam.d/passwd, you will find:
>
> password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
> use_authtok nullok md5 shadow
>
> Take out 'md5'.
>
> But why switch back to weaker encryption... to
> verify using MD5, just call
> crypt() with the password to verify and the first 11
> chars of the stuff in
> the password file as the salt. The salt always
> starts with '$1$' in MD5.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:46:20PM -0800, Mary
> Christie Generalao wrote:
> > How do i force RH7 to use DES passwords (or if im
> > using the wrong algorithm, i mean the 13-char
> > password) instead of the MD5 password that's
> currently
> > active? I wanted to revert to the old standard
> > password because some of our scripts that check
> the
> > password cant understand md5. i wish to go back to
> the
> > old format without reinstalling the OS. Any tips?
>
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