On Mon, Mar 27, Tobias Burnus wrote:
Hi,
it doesn't have this value, and when i added it returns me unknown item 'md5_crypt_enab' #rpm -q shadow shadow-19990827-29 Mmmm... Maybe Suse does not ship the shadow passwords suite with MD5
Ertan Sekmen wrote: passwords support (due to export restriction laws ?) . I don't know what extra restrictions the version shiped to and re-exported from the USA, but this is a limitation in SuSE 6.3.
SuSE 6.3 introduced PAM support, but the PAM support used didn't support
No, we introduced PAM with SuSE Linux 6.2. And PAM supports MD5 hashes, since this is implemented in glibc's crypt() version. So no special md5 support for PAM is needed. But the passwd version was not able to create md5 hashes.
MD5. In SuSE 6.4, MD5 is supposed to work with PAM. (In versions before 6.3 it also worked.)
With SuSE Linux 6.4, passwd is able to create md5 hashes. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.