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Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?



On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> 
> > BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do
> > "migrate" from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry
> > in the config file (/etc/login.conf?) would be sufficient.
> 
> if your using slink changing /etc/login.conf is all it takes, but you

Ok, and for those of us using Potato?  I don't have an /etc/login.conf.

...or does that make me:

> if your using PAM then sprinkle `md5' after any password line in the
> /etc/pam.d/* files (login, ssh, passwd..)



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