Re: how to switch from DES to md5?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:15:54PM -0700, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> I'm working my way through the "securing Debian HOWTO" and I'd like
> to switch my system from regular DES passwords to MD5 as suggested.
The documentation I started from was in:
/usr/doc/passwd/README.debian.gz
Apparently this used to be controlled in /etc/login.defs, but what I
wound up doing is changing the password lines /etc/pam.d/passwd and
/etc/pam.d/login to:
password required pam_unix.so md5 nullok obscure min=6 max=16
The key thing is to add the md5 bit, and in order for it to be useful,
you'll need to set the max to something longer than 8.
Jon Leonard
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