8 character passwords?
hey all, fabulously, my notebook decided to screw up and erased my partition table, but by the time i realized, it was already too late. somehow the motherboard addressed the harddrive as CHS, not as LBA anymore, and the next write made the damage final. anyway, no biggie since i have backups, but now i am running a fresh suse 7.0 and somehow there are only 8 character passwords. makes me believe that no md5 is being used... without the use of yast or suseconfig, how can i enable md5 passwords? what package is responsible? thanks, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- women who want to be equal to men lack imagination.
Martin, it's part of pam. Please refer to /usr/share/doc/packages/pam/README.md5 for the usage of long passwords. cheers, Ralf
hey all, fabulously, my notebook decided to screw up and erased my partition table, but by the time i realized, it was already too late. somehow the motherboard addressed the harddrive as CHS, not as LBA anymore, and the next write made the damage final.
anyway, no biggie since i have backups, but now i am running a fresh suse 7.0 and somehow there are only 8 character passwords. makes me believe that no md5 is being used...
without the use of yast or suseconfig, how can i enable md5 passwords? what package is responsible?
thanks, martin
* * Ralf Koch * mailto:info@formel4.de *
[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?
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