Re: [suse-security] 8 character passwords?

17 Jan 2001

      [root@inflammation passwords]# cat /etc/pam.d/passwd 
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok md5 shadow

Alternativly, you could use bigcrypt instead of md5, which allows 100char crypt passwords.  MD5 is limited to somewhere around 120chars.

-miah
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0100, MaD dUCK wrote:
...
without the use of yast or suseconfig, how can i enable
md5 passwords? what package is responsible?

Re: [suse-security] 8 character passwords?

Jeremiah Johnson