Hello,
I just subscribed the suse-linux-e list and I want to salute everybody! Now, back to business: I'm testing suse linux 7.2 to move over our oracle server from redhat... it's OK until now, but I have a bugger: somehow I managed to install suse without MD5 passwords; it defaulted to crypt, which does not accept passwords longer than 8 chars...this is the third install&config (I'm trying to get used to yast) and first time that I noticed I don't have MD5 passwords. What did I do? there were no asking during the install...when I was asked a password for root, I noticed it told me the password would be truncated to 8 chars (my password was longer); I don't remember on the
previous installs
seeing that... I have the full tree exported on ftp, and I installed from that; What I need to know is, now that I have it installed, can I change it to use MD5 encrypted passwords?
dragos
Hello,
It looks asa though you might not be using the "shadow-
suite" program to store your passwords.
If you are using the "crypt" program, then the chances are
the the passwords are being stored in "/etc/passwd" which
is not recommended.
Passwords using the "shadow" program are put into the
following file:
/etc/shadow
check that this file exists. If NOT, then you'll have to
install "shadow", and run the following binary:
pwconv
to convert the passwords stored in "/etc/passwd"
to "/etc/shadow.conf" using MD5 encryption.
Let me know how you get on,
Regards,
Thomas Adam
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Thomas Adam
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