Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kyle McDonald wrote: > If possible, I'd like someone to confirm what I think I've proved by my > experiments: > > 1. The default Solaris config will compare the password entered with the > encrypted version in the shadow file using what ever crypt method *the > existing password* was encrypted

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Kyle McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If someone changes their password and they are using a deprecated algrithm > their new password will be encoded with the default. > > Ahh. That's what I missed. I (for some reason) thought if I depracated an algorithm, all accounts using that algorithm would be unab

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>1. The default Solaris config will compare the password entered with the >encrypted version in the shadow file using what ever crypt method *the >existing password* was encrypted with? Yes, the existing encryption is encoded in the hash and that encryption is used, obviously, to compute the ha

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Kyle McDonald
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I just setup a new NIS server on NV. >> >> Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local >> linux boxes on the end of yp source files. >> >> It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted >> pas

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kyle McDonald wrote: > Hi all. > > I just setup a new NIS server on NV. > > Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local > linux boxes on the end of yp source files. > > It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted passwords > in a newer format (I bel

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-07 Thread Boyd Adamson
Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cyril Plisko wrote: >> >> Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well. >> At least it works for me. >> > > Hmm. > > I must have missed that change in Solaris. > > How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to use MD5 when storing new > passwords

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-07 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Nov 7, 2007 11:23 PM, Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cyril Plisko wrote: > > > > Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well. > > At least it works for me. > > > > Hmm. > > I must have missed that change in Solaris. > > How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to use MD5 when

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-07 Thread John Sonnenschein
it's in /etc/security/policy.conf . On 7-Nov-07, at 1:23 PM, Kyle McDonald wrote: > Cyril Plisko wrote: >> >> Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well. >> At least it works for me. >> > > Hmm. > > I must have missed that change in Solaris. > > How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-07 Thread Kyle McDonald
Cyril Plisko wrote: > > Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well. > At least it works for me. > Hmm. I must have missed that change in Solaris. How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to use MD5 when storing new passwords in the shadow file? -Kyle

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-07 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Nov 7, 2007 11:14 PM, Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I just setup a new NIS server on NV. > > Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local > linux boxes on the end of yp source files. > > It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encryp

[osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-07 Thread Kyle McDonald
Hi all. I just setup a new NIS server on NV. Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local linux boxes on the end of yp source files. It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted passwords in a newer format (I beleive so that it can handle longer passw