[Pkg-shadow-devel] shadow

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:18:55PM +0100, Adam Ruczko wrote:
> Nicolas François napisał(a):
> >I've found more info on this thread:
> >https://www.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2003-September/msg00061.html
> >(Making Linux use Blowfish for passwd/shadow encryption)
...
> I have found better way to do this.
> This implementation is used for example in SUSE and Slackware:
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/hints/2005-February/002787.html
> 
> This is patch made by Solar for openwall project (for shadow package).

Ultimately you both refer to Solar Designer's patch.

I can only add that Solar is quite known person [here],
see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Designer,

and I personally would rather take his patch as a base
instead of implementing the same from scratch, probably
introducing bugs on my own etc. etc.

Also, I'll look what's there in NetBSD -- I saw _more_
options than DES, MD5 and Blowfish...

P.S. Sorry, Nicolas, I didn't have time to check your
patch that stops ceases linking unnecessary binaries
against libpam.

-- 
WBR,
xrgtn