Re: [SLE] MD5 passwords problem
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
-----------
Thomas Adam
"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" --
thanks for your reply, Thomas the problem is I have shadow passwords installed...that was my first guess, too; it's more a problem of finding out where to make the change: in rehat I would have changed /etc/sysconfig/authconfig to contain USEMD5=yes/no I'm a little puzzled here, 'cause I didn't find anything in yast, either... dragos THOMAS ADAM wrote:
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
----------- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" --
A Student at the "Southampton Institute", Southampton, Hants, ENGLAND
* Dragos;
On Thu, Oct 04, Dragos wrote:
ok, I found it; but, hey, why doesn't install it default?
Which means you haven't read the README.md5, have you ? Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
I was under the impression that something went different in the installation process (this is my third suse install), because I didn't noticed that during previous installs (maybe because those are test installs, and I didn't care abut the passwords)... However I thins it's a sane thing to ask during the instalation (including the warnings). dragos Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, Dragos wrote:
ok, I found it; but, hey, why doesn't install it default?
Which means you haven't read the README.md5, have you ?
Thorsten
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