Re: PAM module exists?

Subject: Re: PAM module exists?
From: Iain Wade (iwadeoptusnet.com.au)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 01:56:07 CST

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Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Iain Wade wrote:
>
> > Looks like a good starting point, but I'm not entirely happy storing
> > passwords in cleartext .. and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this
> > category.
>
> > Do any pam-people here want to patch it (possibly w/ bits from pam_pwdb)
> > so it supports the optional 'md5' flag in the same way? Or know of an
> > existing effort?
>
> > It would probably be of benefit to more than just myself :)
>
> Here's a preliminary patch which adds support for storing crypted passwords in
> the database. There's no md5-specific support in it yet, although I dropped a
> pointer in there should anyone want to implement it. However, glibc 2.1
> supports md5 password hashes out-of-the-box using the system crypt() function,
> so most people don't have a pressing need for this.

Thanks for that!

I had a few problems applying it, I'm not sure why .. but now it works
like a charm ..

I knew it would be fairly simple :)

Cheers,
Iain Wade

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