Kyle McDonald wrote:
Hi all.
I just setup a new NIS server on NV.
Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local
linux boxes on the end of yp source files.
It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted passwords
in a newer format (I beleive so
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Kyle McDonald wrote:
Hi all.
I just setup a new NIS server on NV.
Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local
linux boxes on the end of yp source files.
It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted
passwords in a newer
Kyle McDonald wrote:
If possible, I'd like someone to confirm what I think I've proved by my
experiments:
1. The default Solaris config will compare the password entered with the
encrypted version in the shadow file using what ever crypt method *the
existing password* was encrypted with?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone changes their password and they are using a deprecated algrithm
their new password will be encoded with the default.
Ahh.
That's what I missed.
I (for some reason) thought if I depracated an algorithm, all accounts
using that algorithm would be unable
1. The default Solaris config will compare the password entered with the
encrypted version in the shadow file using what ever crypt method *the
existing password* was encrypted with?
Yes, the existing encryption is encoded in the hash and that encryption
is used, obviously, to compute the hash
On Nov 7, 2007 11:14 PM, Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
I just setup a new NIS server on NV.
Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local
linux boxes on the end of yp source files.
It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted
Cyril Plisko wrote:
Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well.
At least it works for me.
Hmm.
I must have missed that change in Solaris.
How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to use MD5 when storing new
passwords in the shadow file?
-Kyle
it's in /etc/security/policy.conf .
On 7-Nov-07, at 1:23 PM, Kyle McDonald wrote:
Cyril Plisko wrote:
Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well.
At least it works for me.
Hmm.
I must have missed that change in Solaris.
How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to use MD5 when
On Nov 7, 2007 11:23 PM, Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cyril Plisko wrote:
Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well.
At least it works for me.
Hmm.
I must have missed that change in Solaris.
How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to use MD5 when storing new
Hi all.
I just setup a new NIS server on NV.
Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local
linux boxes on the end of yp source files.
It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted passwords
in a newer format (I beleive so that it can handle longer
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