Sam,

Scalr uses farm key to authenticate itself.

You can change encryption algorithm in /etc/login.defs file.

Nick

2009/9/21 Sam <[email protected]>:
>
> I Will confirm that later, Nickolas.
>
> At the moment linux/unixes use CRYPT_MD5 or CRYPT_BLOWFISH.
> Our old server use  CRYPT_MD5 whereas the new also uses
> CRYPT_BLOWFISH.
>
> If I change these settings will it affect any scalr functionality?
> Do you know where can I change the salt value and the encryption
> algorithm from  CRYPT_BLOWFISH to CRYPT_MD5 in ubuntu app server
> image?
>
>
> On Sep 21, 12:30 pm, Nickolas Toursky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> Do you mean system users passwords in /etc/shadow ?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> 2009/9/21 Sam <[email protected]>:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > We were using Red hat and then migrated to the cloud servers on
>> > Ubuntu.
>>
>> > The current Red Hat implementation of the password encryption uses
>> > the
>> > crypt() method with a generated salt. On the Red Hat server the method
>> > uses the md5 algorithm to generate
>> > passwords and the constant values are:
>> > CRYPT_SALT_LENGTH - 12
>> > CRYPT_STD_DES - 1
>> > CRYPT_EXT_DES - 0
>> > CRYPT_MD5 - 1
>> > CRYPT_BLOWFISH - 0
>>
>> > For example, the generated password of the string 'admin' was
>> > $1$BOqLtPNm$CnzfaoymJGNvotH7ZPoqB/ - all hash values begin $1$, then
>> > 8
>> > characters, then a $ sign.
>>
>> > On the Ubuntu setup, it seems that the Standard DES algorithm is
>> > always used.
>>
>> > Any ideas how to force the use of md5? In theory this is based on
>> > the
>> > length of the supplied salt, but it doesn't seem to work.
> >
>

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