In those files they have nullok all over the place, and null is not ok here but I hesitate to remove... any valid reason why to keep it in there? no usesr without passwords here, but do these files affect any system stuff like mail do you know, or just physical users with /home directories. yea yea I have been reading pam docs for 2 days... but I like to know if someone knows for sure because locking myself out isn't in the schedule... On 2002.09.30 18:29 Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Susan Buczak (sbuczak2@comcast.net) [020930 15:21]:
Well how do I convert to MD5 and stay there?
By adding 'md5' to the pam_pwcheck.so and pam_unix2.so lines in /etc/pam.d/passwd. It sounds like you've already done this through yast2 but it wouldn't hurt to check the file.
* Susan Buczak (sbuczak2@comcast.net) [020930 15:40]:
In those files they have nullok all over the place, and null is not ok here but I hesitate to remove... any valid reason why to keep it in there? no usesr without passwords here, but do these files affect any system stuff like mail do you know, or just physical users with /home directories.
I don't understand what you asking. Remove them, nothing bad will happen.
yea yea I have been reading pam docs for 2 days... but I like to know if someone knows for sure because locking myself out isn't in the schedule...
It's pretty hard to lock yourself out of a machine that you physical access to. -- -ckm
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