On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:08:56 -0600 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > further: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/1561245/404019 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt > > ... i can't find any literature suggesting sha512 decreases your > security, and no reason to bother switching. both are good solutions. > Certainly not worth the effort to me right now, you might be interested or already know about this though. "http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bcrypt-paper.pdf"; > `man pam_unix` will give you a good overview of PAM, simply because > it's the primary module responsible for traditional, file-based login. > in a nutshell, PAM looks at the requester's name (the binary), loads > a config with the same name from /etc/pam.d/{name}, and finally pipes > your activities through each defined modules in four groups: Thanks for the info. I find it time-consuming to see what is allowed and prevented with udev, pam and dbus, polkit etc.. With sudo for example, it is easy. -- Kc
