On 05/27/2013 04:23 PM, Andreas Meile wrote: > Hello Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Davies" <ch...@roaima.co.uk> > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 2:54 PM > Subject: Re: /etc/shadow password hash format (migration from SuSE 9.3 > to Debian Wheezy) > > >> man 3 crypt contains a NOTES section that identifies the ID and describes >> its format. Specifically, $6$salt$encrypted is SHA-512. > > Thanks for the hint. Already done: > >> ID | Method >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> 1 | MD5 >> 2a | Blowfish (not in mainline glibc; added in some >> | Linux distributions) >> 5 | SHA-256 (since glibc 2.7) >> 6 | SHA-512 (since glibc 2.7) > > So this lights out the situation: While SuSE 9.3 used Blowfish as > extended password encryption method, Debian Wheezy uses SHA-512 for > that. A short view inside older Linux boxes: Squeeze also uses SHA-512, > and Lenny uses MD5 according this table. > > A "apt-cache search blowfish" shows me a lot of Blowfish related > packages. So is there one on it which extends the login authentication > routine also to process Blowfish hashes in /etc/shadow or is that a much > more complicate procedure (compiling a new kernel for example)? > > Andreas
Hi Andreas, I think man login.defs will bring some light on the problem. Regards, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51a377f3.8030...@biotec.tu-dresden.de
