... a sad tale of woe.


Has anyone had any success using RedHat 5.2 (as configured out of the box,
with a pam-enabled login which uses pam_pwdb.so for authentication) to
authenticate NIS users for which the passwd map is shadowed using
passwd.adjunct?

As usual, I can't even fathom that no one has run into this before, since
many Sun/Solaris servers use passwd.adjunct files to help protect from
crack attacks.  I did a search on DejaNews and found one article claiming
that pam_pwdb.so is not ready for prime time and can't even authenticate
shadowed passwords:

strings /lib/libpwdb.so | grep '\(shadow\.byname\|passwd\.adjunct\)' |wc -l

returns 0

If this is the case, I have to wonder why RedHat uses pam_pwdb.so by
default...





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