Support,
Hello, I have an odd problem. From what I can see, PAM is in the
default install of Red Hat version 7.2. At the current time, however, I
would like to use the traditional authentication mechanism to authenticate
our users (IE not using Kerberos or MD5).
Here is the situation, if our users have a password that is less than or
equal to 8 characters they get authenticated right away. If the password
length is greater than 8 characters (like any good password is) then the
authentication fails. It seems to me that UNIX style password
authentication doesn't care about the characters beyond length of 8. But
PAM sends the entire password string given to the decryption process and
this is what makes it fail. In order for the users who have a password
longer than 8 characters to be authenticated, they must only put in the
first 8 characters (IE an incomplete password guess). Not only is this an
annoyance to our users, it is just wrong. If you would please let me know
how I can make PAM successfully
authenticate a password longer than 8 characters without using MD5 I would
greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Nick Pappas
Intel
UNIX Administrator (Intern)
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