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Re: Changing to MD5 shadow passwords?



On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:04:20AM -0500, R. Ransbottom wrote:
> I would like to convert all of my 
> Debian 2.0 and 2.2 systems to MD5 
> shadow passwords.  If I understand
> the docs correctly all that needs doing
> is to add md5 to the apropriate lines
> in /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/login.
> 
> Is this correct?

yes, check all the files in /etc/pam.d for `password' lines, add md5
to all password lines with pam_unix.so as the module.  

note that passwords are only converted to md5 after the user changes
thier password.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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