Thanks Nickolas.
On Sep 21, 3:44 pm, Nickolas Toursky <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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