On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:34:58PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:11:33PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote: > > I'm currently converting an old OpenBSD box to linux, and I need to move the > > user accounts across. > > > > Short of cracking the blowfish password hashes in master.passwd, can I make > > Linux (PAM) use blowfish instead of md5 so I don't need to convert the > > hashes? > > Yes. > > The easiest is to install a distribution which already includes > support for those hashes "out of the box". You can try ours: > > http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ > > Or one from ALT Linux team: > > http://www.altlinux.com > > Alternatively, you may "patch" the support into whatever distribution > you have, using these packages: > > http://www.openwall.com/crypt/ > http://www.openwall.com/tcb/ is there any particular reason more distros haven't adopted these patches? all the major players already distribute strong crypto so that can't be the reason... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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