[PLUG] Solaris and Decent Authentication

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Kaile Riser wrote:

> Having 8 significant chars in passwords is irritating. Beyond that,
> I am going to be implementing NIS (and later LDAP) soon for
> authentication, and I would MUCH prefer to use MD5 across the board
> rather than DES. Is there a patch, pam update, pam module, etc...
> that can do what I'm looking for, or am I SOL?

As far as I know, NIS is locked into DES, so any NIS solution is 
DES-bound regardless of OS.

I'm unsure whether Solaris can work with MD5 hashes with LDAP 
authentication, but I'm pretty sure it can't use them in any 
files-based scheme like passwd/shadow.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>