On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 19:20, md wrote:
> Hello david:
>
> You are not wasting anybody's time.
>
> The fact that I sit in front of a computer takes all the blame
> for that.
>
> But on serious side, since you seem to heavilly involved in this PAM
> stuff,
> maybe you would know the answer to a simple question.
>
> How would you write /etc/pam.conf so that it forces a password at login
> and that password is NOT MD5 encoded in /etc/shadow but stored as plain
> text in /etc/passwd.
>
> I have created a ramdisk version of linux and wanted to put a very
> minimal PAM operation
> in place instead of pam_permit.so for all my authentication.
There's a pam_pwdb (or something like that - password database) module.
I'd suggest looking into that.
Jenn V.
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