Samba/Unix passwords

2003-09-20 Thread Mike Burger
There is another way: Webmin's samba config interface has a couple of options for: Convert Unix users to Samba users and Configure automatic Unix and Samba user synchronisation I haven't played with either, myself, but they look promising. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-09-13 Thread Rhugga
Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? Dude, fix the date on your 'puter. =) rhugga -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-29 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:39:34PM -0300, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? Simple answer... No, of course not. If there were, that would be a bug. Longer answer

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-29 Thread Marcos de Souza Trazzini
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 23:44, Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:39:34PM -0300, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? Simple answer... No, of course

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-22 Thread Marcos de Souza Trazzini
set the clock yet How John The Ripper is running from about 20 hours without success It try lot of different passwords. 3 Days ?? Isn't any email from you to me in my Mailbox... HHHmm. Wonder why not? I sent it straight to the address provided on your posted

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-21 Thread Marcos de Souza Trazzini
Hey I've already set the clock yet How John The Ripper is running from about 20 hours without success It try lot of different passwords. 3 Days ?? Isn't any email from you to me in my Mailbox... And aim't ignoring those requests, when i've warned (Yesterday), solve

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:12 21 Aug 2003, Marcos de Souza Trazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hey I've already set the clock yet [...] | And aim't ignoring those requests, when i've warned (Yesterday), solve | the problem on the same instant. Thanks! -- Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] DoD#743

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-21 Thread Keith Morse
. I am looking forward to seeing how long it takes. Thanks for bringing this up. 13 minutes of cpu time and counting. Snicker. Last time I tried John I gave up after 9 days. It is/was a good password and only 9 characters in length. But that is after all, the point of good passwords

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-21 Thread Edward Dekkers
Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: Hey I've already set the clock yet How John The Ripper is running from about 20 hours without success It try lot of different passwords. 3 Days ?? Isn't any email from you to me in my Mailbox... HHHmm. Wonder why not? I sent

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-21 Thread Marcos S. Trazzini
, the point of good passwords, no? Was using a PIII 1Ghz. -- Marcos S. Trazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Servmicro Informtica LTDA. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-20 Thread Marcos de Souza Trazzini
My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-20 Thread Javier Martinez
You can try with John the ripper or crack. On 20 Aug 2006, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:39, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? My request is very simple. Fix your system clock, or face a filter to my trash folder. This is the 2nd time I've asked, this time

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-20 Thread Gerry Doris
On 20 Aug 2003, Jason Dixon wrote: On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:39, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? My request is very simple. Fix your system clock, or face a filter to my trash folder

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-20 Thread Ivan Roseland
Yes, it is called brute force. John the ripper might help http://www.openwall.com/john/ If its a good password though it could take a very long time to crack the password. Ivan Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:36, Ivan Roseland wrote: Yes, it is called brute force. John the ripper might help http://www.openwall.com/john/ If its a good password though it could take a very long time to crack the password. Ivan You know I have always been curious about this so

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-20 Thread Edward Dekkers
Jason Dixon wrote: On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:39, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: My question is very _SIMPLE_ : There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file? My request is very simple. Fix your system clock, or face a filter to my trash folder. This is the 2nd time

Re: changing passwords for NIS clients...

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Steve Strong wrote: ...does this mean people at the client machines need to use both passwd and yppasswd to change their passwords? And will that allow people to login with their new password and still access their home directory information? steve AFAIK, ypasswd

changing passwords for NIS clients...

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Strong
...does this mean people at the client machines need to use both passwd and yppasswd to change their passwords? And will that allow people to login with their new password and still access their home directory information? steve -- Steve Strong Math/Computer Science Teacher Washington High

Adding new users and assigning passwords

2003-07-09 Thread Tony Hickinbottom
The commands in 'pem' work ok if I type themat the command line. Why will they not workin a script? Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686 # ls -l pem-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 94 Jul 8 19:44 pem # cat pem/usr/sbin/useradd -g popusers -s /bin/false merves02echo d2ksd6b

Re: Adding new users and assigning passwords

2003-07-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Tony, The commands in 'pem' work ok if I type them at the command line. Why will they not work in a script? Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686 Please update your system. # ls -l pem -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 94 Jul 8 19:44 pem # cat pem

prevent clear text passwords?

2003-03-31 Thread gregory mott
i'm looking for how to prevent users from submitting clear text passwords, and i'm stumbling.. closing port 110 might force pop clients to use port 995, but i've read that tls is preferred over ssl, and tls uses port 110? i've also got openwebmail set up, and i tried tweaking httpd.conf so

NIS passwords

2003-02-13 Thread Kirby Clements
This is an issue regarding NIS - if this is not appropriate for this list, no fret taken. I am having trouble finding out which line to put into /etc/passwd and /etc/group and so on. I have read that the line: +:: will work for all users in the passwd file, as long as one places

Re: NIS passwords

2003-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:52, Kirby Clements wrote: I am having trouble finding out which line to put into /etc/passwd and /etc/group and so on. None. Just use 'authconfig' to configure NIS authentication. That's it. I have read that the line: +:: will work for all users in

Re: Either hacked or passwords got corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:55, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: It's too late to analyze the problem when all evidence has been removed. Deadlines speak louder than the time that someone has - hence no time to muck around, only time to get application installed. BTW, being that it happened twice

Re: Either hacked or passwords got corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04 Feb 2003 23:39:13 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: BTW, being that it happened twice with the same configuration under RH 8.0, it has been determined that the kernel parameters that were passed on this particular motherboard caused file system

Re: Either hacked or passwords got corrupted

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03 Feb 2003 16:46:40 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On my relatively NEW load of RH 8.0, I was trying to compile a program's dependencies with CPAN - after about 15 minutes or so, the screensaver in KDE kicked on...but I let it continue to run.

Re: Either hacked or passwords got corrupted

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
the same right after the 45 minutes to install everything I needed; used KUSER then it all went south. Rebooted and all the passwords for all the accounts I created don't work. So, it has to be file system corruption - something - something has to have hosed up the /etc/passwd beyond usage. It's too

Re: Either hacked or passwords got corrupted

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03 Feb 2003 21:31:58 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:07, Michael Schwendt wrote: Why? Surely you can reboot the machine and get past the passwd check. Tried that, no go. Did the exact same thing Um, at reboot you

Re: Either hacked or passwords got corrupted

2003-02-03 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
before the first hose up; second installation, did the same right after the 45 minutes to install everything I needed; used KUSER then it all went south. Rebooted and all the passwords for all the accounts I created don't work. So, it has to be file system corruption - something - something has

SSHD and no passwords

2003-02-02 Thread Mike McMullen
Hi all, I am trying to setup rsync to create a mirror of a production server using -e ssh. In my scenario an anonymous rsync server won't work. I can get the rsync to do what I want perfectly except that that ssh is requiring I enter either the password or passphrase depending on the iteration

Either hacked or passwords got corrupted

2003-02-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On my relatively NEW load of RH 8.0, I was trying to compile a program's dependencies with CPAN - after about 15 minutes or so, the screensaver in KDE kicked on...but I let it continue to run. After about 20 minutes, I tried to get past the screensaver - password bad. I then tried to ssh into the

Problems trying to change passwords with RH7.3

2003-01-28 Thread Billy Davis
We have just done a FRESH install of RH7.3 right out of a retail box, and have encountered two problems: 1. We set up several users with temporary passwords for testing. Later we logged into the Graphical login screen as root, and selected System Settings--User Manager. Then we highlighted

Re: Problems trying to change passwords with RH7.3

2003-01-28 Thread Mike Burger
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Billy Davis wrote: We have just done a FRESH install of RH7.3 right out of a retail box, and have encountered two problems: 1. We set up several users with temporary passwords for testing. Later we logged into the Graphical login screen as root, and selected System

Re: Problems trying to change passwords with RH7.3

2003-01-28 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:52, Billy Davis wrote: We have just done a FRESH install of RH7.3 right out of a retail box, and have encountered two problems: 1. We set up several users with temporary passwords for testing. Later we logged into the Graphical login screen as root, and selected

Re: Problems trying to change passwords with RH7.3

2003-01-28 Thread Billy Davis
- Original Message - From: Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:26 AM Subject: Re: Problems trying to change passwords with RH7.3 On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Billy Davis wrote: We have just done a FRESH install of RH7.3 right out of a retail

Re: Problems trying to change passwords with RH7.3

2003-01-28 Thread Billy Davis
- Original Message - From: Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:28 AM Subject: Re: Problems trying to change passwords with RH7.3 On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:52, Billy Davis wrote: We have just done a FRESH install of RH7.3 right out

RE: allowing short passwords

2003-01-27 Thread Buck
]] On Behalf Of pilip Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: allowing short passwords yes sir, i could actually go with any password lesser than 5 but im trying to aim for a single char. only root can change the passwrds of users to a single char but ordinary users

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-27 Thread pilip
i got some tips from other lists, they told me to use 'sudo' for it. because only root is allowed to change passwords to single chars. the harder workaround, for me(because im not well adept with hacking codes), is to make changes to the source code of pam. havent gone that deep yet though

allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
Good day, how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short passwords as in single character passwords. I've tried making changes to '/etc/login.defs' and to the pam config '/etc/pam.d/system-auth' to no avail. thanks in advance -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Burger
In all honesty, if you value the security of your system, you don't. On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, pilip wrote: Good day, how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short passwords as in single character passwords. I've tried making changes to '/etc/login.defs' and to the pam config

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread gabriel
Hi Pilip. root can set a user's passwd to anything you want, but.. DON'T DO IT !! Passwords this short are just a waste of the user's time at login. If you are going to have them that short you might as well not have any at all. Cracking 1 letter passwords is so easy it can be done

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
it's a testing environment. i don't need security on a stand alone machine that's underneath my table. :) Mike Burger wrote: In all honesty, if you value the security of your system, you don't. On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, pilip wrote: Good day, how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
it's not on a networked environment sir, i know this is possible in linux (to use single character passwords) i just need to know how to do it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:53:47AM +0800, pilip wrote: how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short passwords

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Burger
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, gabriel wrote: Hi Pilip. root can set a user's passwd to anything you want, but.. DON'T DO IT !! Passwords this short are just a waste of the user's time at login. If you are going to have them that short you might as well not have any at all. Cracking 1

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Burger
on a stand alone machine that's underneath my table. :) Mike Burger wrote: In all honesty, if you value the security of your system, you don't. On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, pilip wrote: Good day, how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short passwords as in single

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Burger
Like he said...as root, change the user's password via passwd user On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, pilip wrote: it's not on a networked environment sir, i know this is possible in linux (to use single character passwords) i just need to know how to do it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 27

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
wrote: Good day, how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short passwords as in single character passwords. I've tried making changes to '/etc/login.defs' and to the pam config '/etc/pam.d/system-auth' to no avail. thanks in advance -- the first step is love

RE: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread Buck
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of pilip Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: allowing short passwords it's not on a networked environment sir, i know this is possible in linux (to use single character passwords) i just need to know how to do it. [EMAIL

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
yes sir, i could actually go with any password lesser than 5 but im trying to aim for a single char. only root can change the passwrds of users to a single char but ordinary users can't change their passwords to single characters. im on rh8.0 too. maybe a prayer will do it :D Buck wrote

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:52, pilip wrote: like what i've stated.security is not an issue. it's the possibility. thanks anyways for your comments. Since you have been given all the warnings but no help. I was able to do this as root: [root@bretsony root]# adduser testdude [root@bretsony

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
did that before asking here, try logging on as that user or just 'su -' to that user and change your password to another single char password. it won't allow that user to change it Bret Hughes wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:52, pilip wrote: like what i've stated.security is not an issue.

Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-23 Thread Willem Brown
Bruno Negrao wrote: Yes Nate, I checked it - since the user is created, if I cut and paste the crypted password from the /etc/shadow of the origin machine and paste it to the /etc/shadow of the second machine, the user can logon with the same password!! A better way might be to use usermod

How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-22 Thread Bruno Negrao
Hi all, I have a redhat 6.0 running a radiusd server to authenticate my RAS dialin users. I'll deactivate this machine. So, I need to migrate this users to a redhat 8.0 machine, already running with Qmail + Vpopmail. How to migrate all these dialin users from one machine to the other? If I cut

Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Bruno Negrao said: Hi all, I have a redhat 6.0 running a radiusd server to authenticate my RAS dialin users. I'll deactivate this machine. So, I need to migrate this users to a redhat 8.0 machine, already running with Qmail + Vpopmail. How to migrate all these dialin users from one machine

Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-22 Thread Raymundo M. Vega
The two encription methods i have seen are DES and MD5, they are easy to recognize: MD5: $1$8 chars$ 22 chars DES: 13 chars in MD5 $1$ is always present, the 8 char string that folows is the salt and the last 22 chars is the encrypted password. For DES the first two char is the salt and

Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-22 Thread Bruno Negrao
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:34 PM Subject: Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another? Bruno Negrao said: Hi all, I have a redhat 6.0 running a radiusd server to authenticate my RAS dialin users. I'll deactivate this machine. So, I

Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-22 Thread Bruno Negrao
Hi Raymundo, in MD5 $1$ is always present, the 8 char string that folows is the salt and the last 22 chars is the encrypted password. What is this 'salt' thing? For DES the first two char is the salt and the last 11 is the encrypted password. and if both systems use the same encryption,

Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Burger
Copying the shadow entries from the old system to the new should be sufficient, yes. On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Bruno Negrao wrote: Hi all, I have a redhat 6.0 running a radiusd server to authenticate my RAS dialin users. I'll deactivate this machine. So, I need to migrate this users to a

Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another?

2003-01-22 Thread Raymundo M. Vega
It's one way to make it more difficult to guess somebody's password, the salt and the password are encrypted together. One example of usage is when two users have the same password, they can not tell it both have the same by looking at the passwords file. raymundo Bruno Negrao wrote: Hi

Re: Copying passwords from one machine to another

2003-01-22 Thread trysaran
13. Re: How to copy users passwords from one machine to another? (Bruno Negrao) There are utilities called pwconv, pwunconv grpconv and grpunconv. I have used the above commands without any problem. Refer the man pages. trysaran Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http

changing user passwords on ldap

2002-12-11 Thread Patrick Nelson
When I (as root) try to change a password of a user using passwd like: passwd user name I get a prompt like: Enter login(LDAP) password: and anything I enter isn't accepted. Any idea what I'm a doing wrong? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: changing user passwords on ldap

2002-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:14, Patrick Nelson wrote: When I (as root) try to change a password of a user using passwd like: passwd user name I get a prompt like: Enter login(LDAP) password: and anything I enter isn't accepted. Any idea what I'm a doing wrong? Are you entering the user's

RE: changing user passwords on ldap

2002-12-11 Thread Patrick Nelson
Gordon Messmer wrote: - Are you entering the user's password? - Yes. I'm testing out ldap that I have running on a server that I built using real users. The migrate scripts populated the userPassword field and I want to set all these to a default value while I

Re: LDAP auth passwords

2002-12-06 Thread Aly S.P Dharshi
ignore PAM, and stick with the bad old days when interfaces weren't shared. passwd remains the correct answer. Users should never have to care where their passwords are stored in order to set them correctly. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject

Re: LDAP auth passwords

2002-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 12:22, Aly S.P Dharshi wrote: Gordon, I agree, and after a test that the passwd utility does indeed change the password the only question is that it encodes it as a {CRYPT} and I want to use MD5 as my hashing scheme From

Re: LDAP auth passwords

2002-12-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
it exists. You're suggesting that users ignore PAM, and stick with the bad old days when interfaces weren't shared. passwd remains the correct answer. Users should never have to care where their passwords are stored in order to set them correctly. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: LDAP auth passwords

2002-12-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 16:47, Patrick Nelson wrote: What is the best way (process) to change ldap passwords? Have you tried passwd? I'd expect PAM to be able to manage to change a password in the directory. How about adding users? Is there a tool for this I just have not found yet? I

Re: LDAP auth passwords

2002-12-04 Thread Aly S.P Dharshi
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:14, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 16:47, Patrick Nelson wrote: What is the best way (process) to change ldap passwords? Have you tried passwd? I'd expect PAM to be able to manage to change a password in the directory. I don't know

LDAP auth passwords

2002-11-25 Thread Patrick Nelson
RH73 up2date What is the best way (process) to change ldap passwords? How about adding users? Is there a tool for this I just have not found yet? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Changing passwords

2002-10-13 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Most of the users on our network simply use it for checking email, and hosting their websites. Most of them don't know how to log in through SSH should they need to. Consequently if and when their password expires, they don't know what to do, or where to go to get it reset. And them

Re: Changing passwords

2002-10-13 Thread Tom Pollerman
the mail configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory. A user with too many invalid logins can be locked

Re: Changing passwords

2002-10-12 Thread Martín Marqués
There are some PHP apps for changing passwords, one at www.horde.org, but don't know how secure they are, and if you are not using horde it's a bit uncomfortable, cause you have to install all the horde framework to get this small app working. On Vie 11 Oct 2002 22:38, Ashley M. Kirchner

LDAP Authentication with MD5 Passwords

2002-09-26 Thread Jeff Bearer
the simple setup that I reverted to so there are less things to explain. I've run authconfig and setup the LDAP settings and selected to use MD5 and shadow passwords. I checked in /etc/ldap.conf it says at the end of the file: pam_password md5 I set the encrypted password with the GQ LDAP browser

RE: still unable to have short passwords

2002-08-15 Thread Gregory Hosler
for the text listed. -Greg On 15-Aug-02 Daniel Tan wrote: Hi all, after some help from people...i am still unable to have shorter user passwords on my rh 7.3 machine. tried editing login.defs and in the PAM config directory (/etc/pam.d)and look there either for passwd or system-auth config

still unable to have short passwords

2002-08-14 Thread Daniel Tan
Hi all, after some help from people...i am still unable to have shorter user passwords on my rh 7.3 machine. tried editing login.defs and in the PAM config directory (/etc/pam.d)and look there either for passwd or system-auth config file. open it and look at a line with pam_cracklib.so

Re: Short user passwords

2002-08-12 Thread Daniel Tan
it doesn't work at all - Original Message - From: Teodor Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Short user passwords go into your PAM config directory (/etc/pam.d) and look there either for passwd or system-auth

Re: Short user passwords

2002-08-12 Thread Daniel Tan
it doesn't work at all - Original Message - From: Flávio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:07 PM Subject: RES: Short user passwords Dear Daniel edit /etc/login.defs PASS_MIN_LEN 5 Default Good luck Flávio -Mensagem

Re: Short user passwords

2002-08-12 Thread Reynald I. Ngo
At 12:08 PM 8/13/02 +0800, Daniel Tan wrote: Edit /etc/login.defs it doesn't work at all --- Cheers, Reynald I. Ngo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Passwords automatically changed!!! Serious Bug???

2002-07-19 Thread SkYE
Hello all, This is a very strange situation I've never encountered before. Both the root account and user account become inaccessible. Needless to say, without root there is little that can be done to fix the problem - I always have to do a complete re-install. OS: Redhat 7.3 Hardware: Sony

Re: Passwords automatically changed!!! Serious Bug???

2002-07-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
SkYE wrote: This is a very strange situation I've never encountered before. Both the root account and user account become inaccessible. Needless to say, without root there is little that can be done to fix the problem - I always have to do a complete re-install. I don't have an answer

pam: disable strong passwords

2002-06-24 Thread Surly Zek
Hello, I am trying to disable strong passwords for 1 server only. I am looking at the files under /etc/pam.d/ but do not see how to do this. I checked the online documentation for system administrators at the pam site. It says to ask here since I am running Red Hat 7.x. I tried setting

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Javier Gostling
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: How can I have users change their passwords if they don't have shell access? The biggest problem we have right now is people's passwords expiring (after a mandatory set period) and them having to call IT to get it re-issued again. Generally they start

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Javier Gostling wrote: How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact with the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd. That would work, sure. But before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask first if anyone already has such mechanism, or know of any that are

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:43:50 -0600 Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javier Gostling wrote: How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact with the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd. That would work, sure. But before I reinvent the wheel,

Users changing passwords...

2002-05-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
How can I have users change their passwords if they don't have shell access? The biggest problem we have right now is people's passwords expiring (after a mandatory set period) and them having to call IT to get it re-issued again. Generally they start complaining when they start seeing

passwords

2002-05-14 Thread Isaac Liu
Are thre routines that generates passwords so I can programmatically put them in /etc/shadow? BTW, what is the password encryption algorithm? MD5? DES? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: passwords

2002-05-14 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14-May-2002/10:02 -0700, Isaac Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are thre routines that generates passwords so I can programmatically put them in /etc/shadow? The expect package includes mkpasswd, which can just generate a password or generate

Perl and Shadowed passwords

2002-04-23 Thread Greg Robertson
I am having a problem using perl to authorize users for a web project I am working on. I am using getpwnam $user[1]; to get the users password to compare to the crypted version of it. However when running the perl script, I only get x, the shadowed version of it. To get the right crypted

Re: Perl and Shadowed passwords

2002-04-23 Thread \Anth Courtney\
Hello Greg, You should get the Shadows extension, available from ftp://ftp.eur.nl/pub/homebrew/Shadow-0.01.tar.gz and install it as per the instructions provided. Then it's just a simple call at the top fo your script Use Shadows; and you can then use getspnam instead of getpwnam to return

Shadow Passwords Perl

2002-04-23 Thread Greg Robertson
I am making a website that allows a user to login once the login and pasword they enter is compared to the system users and passwords. I have installed shadows, and I have the same problem as with out shadows installed. If I am root, I can retrieve the crypted password, if I am not root, I

Re: Force MD5 passwords?

2002-03-18 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:58:48AM -, Peter Kiem wrote: Failing solving the above, is there something I could run (perhaps on a nightly basis) to process the shadow file and convert the crypt style passwords into MD5 ones? Both DES hashes (crypt) and MD5 hashes are one way hash

Re: Force MD5 passwords?

2002-03-14 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Brian, man useradd This is the standard way (chpasswd is antiquated, IMHO). It's fully script friendly. I already use useradd for adding new users (although I dont add their password at that stage) but I also use chpasswd for resetting passwords. Can you use useradd to change passwords

Re: Force MD5 passwords?

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Ashe
Peter Kiem, On Thursday March 14, 2002 06:18, you said something about: I already use useradd for adding new users (although I dont add their password at that stage) but I also use chpasswd for resetting passwords. Can you use useradd to change passwords after a user is created? The See Also

Force MD5 passwords?

2002-03-13 Thread Peter Kiem
I have 2 places where passwords are being set on a server where the passwords seem to be encrypted using crypt instead of MD5. 1. chpasswd command Scripts that setup new users, and reset passwords, are using the following command to set the password: echo $user:$password | chpasswd Now

Re: Force MD5 passwords?

2002-03-13 Thread Brian Ashe
Peter Kiem, On Thursday March 14, 2002 12:58, you said something about: I have 2 places where passwords are being set on a server where the passwords seem to be encrypted using crypt instead of MD5. 1. chpasswd command Scripts that setup new users, and reset passwords, are using

Validating passwords via php, Lil help please! (Was with PERL)

2002-02-01 Thread Jake McHenry
K, this script uses php to access poppassd to change users passwords via a form that I threw together quick, but there is a problem. The results of the php is that it successfully changes the password, but it actually does not change it. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to why

RE: Validating passwords via php, Lil help please! (Was with PERL)

2002-02-01 Thread cyrus-mailinglist
There is no newpass command in the rfc standarts, is the newpass command working? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jake McHenry Sent: Freitag, 01. Februar 2002 14:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Validating passwords via php, Lil help

Re: Validating passwords via php, Lil help please! (Was with PERL)

2002-02-01 Thread Jake McHenry
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: RE: Validating passwords via php, Lil help please! (Was with PERL) There is no newpass command in the rfc standarts, is the newpass command working? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Validating passwords via php, Lil help please! (Was with PERL)

2002-02-01 Thread Jake McHenry
it must be trying to change the password, right? Anyone know how to help out? Thanks, Jake - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: RE: Validating passwords via php, Lil help please! (Was with PERL

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