Re: A question about passwords and login/authentication
Pavol Luptak <[email protected]>
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Roman L. Daszczyszak II wrote: > I have heard that many *nix flavors used to default to using DES as > their password storage algorithm, but recently many Linux flavors tend > to use MD5 hashes instead, which are more secure to brute force attacks. Try blowfish instead MD5 http://www.thkukuk.de/pam/pam_unix2 Available in the most Linux distributions. Pavol -- ___________________________________________________________________ [Pavol Luptak, ICZ a.s.] [[email protected]] [tel: +420(2)81002222]
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