glfs/postlfs/security/shadow.xml
Larry Lawrence 96e3995227 added recompile of shadow to utilize PAM
git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@443 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0
2002-12-07 15:24:45 +00:00

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<sect1 id="shadow">
<?dbhtml filename="shadow.html" dir="postlfs"?>
<title>Configuring shadow</title>
<para>Shadow's Configuration File</para>
<para><userinput>/etc/login.defs</userinput></para>
<para>Enabling MD5 Passwords</para>
<para>To enable MD5 Passwords, modify the line in the login.defs file
that reads:
<screen><userinput>#MD5_CRYPT_ENAB no</userinput></screen>
to read:
<screen><userinput>MD5_CRYPT_ENAB yes</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Passwords created after this change will be encrypted using MD5
instead of using DES encryption.</para>
&shadow-inst;
&shadow-exp;
&shadow-config;
</sect1>