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[linux-security] Re: md5,des etc..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Behring)
Sat Nov 27 14:23:04 1999
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:06:48 +0100
From: Alex Behring <ab@seka.de>
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Denis Ducamp wrote:
> If you have the same results then your system supports MD5. If the second
> one gives you some thing like "MD5 : $1Oyx5r9mdGZ2" then it doesn't supports
> MD5.
>
> How to activate it by default ?
>
> - without pam : check the value of "MD5_CRYPT_ENAB" in /etc/login.defs
> - with pam : check the word md5 on the line beginning by :
> "password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok"
> in /etc/pam.d/passwd
Does anyone know, how to make the ipppd-daemon be able to check the md5
passwords ?!? I turned on md5 and couldn't log in through ipppd any-
more, after switching it off again, it was working ok.
Alex
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