Hello, I'm beginning to suspect that my RedHat 6.2 installation isn't really supporting MD5 hashing on the passwords, even though I specified MD5 at install as well as on the password lines of the PAM files. Is there a way to verify this theory? If I try to change my password to something greater than 18 chars in length, I get the message "BAD PASSWORD: is too similiar to the old one". Bad spelling aside, this seems to be a bogus message because the new password is totally different. If I enter it with 18 or less chars, the password is accepted. My shadow file has a password entry like this: :$1$s6cSJvNT$PSJJzm/IaL/LnbJJr0qc..: Which if I'm understanding correctly, is supposed to be MD5 because of the $1$ in the salt portion...? What I'm trying to do is put MD5 passwords in my LDAP directory, but I can't find a true MD5 password. If anyone can shed some light on this subject, I'd love to hear it. Thanks, Kelli
