Re: Making Linux use Blowfish for passwd/shadow encryption

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:16:20PM -0600, Rennie deGraaf wrote:
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> Well, if all the applications that would need to authenticate use PAM, 
> someone could write a PAM module (or a patch on pam_unix) that checks if 
> the stored hash is a Blowfish hash (what's the code, $2?) and checks it 
> itself, and if not, passes it on to crypt().  That would take some 
> coding and a knowledge of Blowfish, but it's not as invasive as 
> installing a new libc.

However it's insufficient for more generic solutions like
GNU/*/Linux distribution, where crypt(3) should support Blowfish hashes.


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