Change password from MD5 to DES.

GianPiero Puccioni gip at ino.it
Fri Jan 30 10:51:33 UTC 2004


* Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> [040128 21:11]:
> Yes.  The configuration file you modified is only used by authconfig for
> tracking settings which it can't deduce by reading the various
> configuration files which it writes, so it won't have any effect unless
> you re-run authconfig.
> 
> You can either re-run authconfig, which should pick up that change and
> use it, or you can modify /etc/pam.d/system-auth directly, finding the
> line which reads
>   password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok md5 shadow
> (or something similar) and removing "md5" from that line.
> 

Yep, that was it, it worked, thanks. I did a grep in all /etc for md5
but I saw only the one I modified, I don't know how I overlooked
system-auth.

Thanks again.

GianPiero





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