[Pkg-shadow-devel] redhat patches

[Peter Vrabec]

Hi,

On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:59:58 am Nicolas François wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:02:12PM +0100, pvrabec at redhat.com wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 November 2007 01:15:58 am Nicolas François wrote:
> > > Just some questions regarding the shadow patch:
> > >  1 Does PAM supports these password schemes (for password creation and
> > >    authentication)?
> >
> > in next upstream release.
>
> I could successfully authenticate an user with a SHA password with PAM
> (PAM only calls crypt, so I expected this to work).
>
> However, for the password creation, I was looking for something like the
> "md5" option of the pam_unix, but did not find anything like that in the
> PAM repository.
> Is it a RedHat patch?
There isn't anything yet. But RedHat (tmraz at redhat.com) works on it. 

> I'm asking because when shadow is compiled with PAM support, passwd will
> not create the new passwd but let PAM do that (using pam_chauthtok).
> So on Debian, passwd will only be able to create MD5 (or DES) passwords.
>
> Best Regards,