Mark Drummond wrote: > On 26/11/2007, Darren J Moffat <darrenm at opensolaris.org> wrote: >> [Reply-To set to security-discuss, please respect and do NOT cross post] >> >> Mark Drummond wrote: >>> How difficult would it be to add a switch to passwd which allows a >>> privileged user to select the password hashing scheme? >> Pretty easy, and in fact I have it prototyped (I did the work about 2 or >> 3 years ago) by using a new user_attr(4) key=value pair. > > Thanks Darren. I suppose this is a bit of a corner case. I'm looking > for a feature to deal with one poorly behaved app. Better that IBM fix > DB2 (and it might well be fixed in DB2 9 or even a V8 fixpack), but > the flexibility in passwd or usermod would be nice.
You have a specific case to work around a problem but you are perfectly correct that the flexibility is needed anyway. -- Darren J Moffat
