[SunHELP] MD5 passwords on solaris

[Phil Stracchino]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:19:44PM -0500, Eric LeBlanc wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:06:55AM -0600, Steve Pribyl wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried to setup pam to use md5 passwords?
> > > I am looking for a cheat sheet.
> >
> > I asked about this once myself, to a guy who at the time was working in
> > Sun's high performance computing group.  His response was that there was
> > at present no support for it, and it would require writing an MD5crypt
> > PAM module.
> >
> 
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2003-February/004648.html

Ah, excellent.  Didn't know that.  (The discussion took place when
Solaris 8 was current.  You never know, maybe my query.....)


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