[ale] Slackware use of PAM?

[oloryn at mindspring.com (Ben Coleman)]

Bob wrote:
> For those that just want to enable Shadow MD5 passwords, this can
> be done on Slackware at least as far back as SW3.4 (1997 or so) and is
> FAR easier than on RH.  30 seconds on SW by following the comments verses
> perhaps 10 minutes on RH6.x.

Didn't Slackware default to shadowed passwords as far back as 3.3?  That
was the first version I used, and my fuzzy memory seems to suggest that
it was shadowed then (though still defaulting to DES).  Slackware
started to default to MD5 passwords with 7.0.

Ben
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