[ale] Slackware use of PAM?

[maltzen at mm.com (Gary Maltzen)]

Just for the record...

Running RH 6.1, the defaults are such that

If /etc/shadow does NOT contain 'username' then
 /etc/passwd should contain the standard 'crypt' password
 (or the plaintext password)

If /etc/passwd contains 'x' as the password AND
 /etc/shadow contains 'username' then
 the (MD5?) password from /etc/shadow is used

'pwconv' synchronizes /etc/shadow with /etc/passwd, insuring
that all users have appropriate shadow passwords.

----- Original Message -----
From: Vernard Martin <vernard at cc.gatech.edu>
To: ale at ale.org


> > RH defaults to shadowed passwords, but off the top of my head I don't
> > remember if md5 is default or not...
>
> Recent versions of RedHat also default to MD5 passwords. Annoying as hell
too
> since that makes them totally incompatible with any non-MD5 password
system on
> the planet (which is most of them).


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