On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:46:09PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:12:59AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > installation. i have no idea, if i can be changed later without *big* > its trivial, simply add md5 to the end of your password lines in > /etc/pam.d/* > password required pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok md5 > to tell if your password is md5 format, look in /etc/shadow (or passwd > if you don't use shadow) if it starts with $1$ its md5, otherwise its > crypt.
Wont this invalidate your old passwords, or does it detect that they used a crypt based hash and use that instead? Otherwise I guess you have to be careful to make sure you run passwd before you log out after making this change. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware
