Re: Security trough paranoia
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:54:00AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
[...]
> Use pam_unix and turn on the 'md5' option in the passwd section of your
> pam config files. Services will still properly authenticate against
> existing crypted passwords, but all new password hashes written to the
> file upon password change will be md5. If you don't want to wait for users
> to change their passwords before the hashes are changed, a little bit of
[...]
You can also force the change of the password with the timeout
in the shadow file (working with chage(1))
Regards
a.f.
--
Andrea Fanfani
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though
she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I
worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say
'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from
the Internet?'" -- Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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