Solaris 9 /etc/shadow file, $ character as first entry.

From: Stanley Laufer (slaufer@slis.sjsu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 14:55:54 EST

• Next message: jordan.j.gaston@verizon.com: "ROUTING WEIRDNESS!!!"
• Previous message: Christopher L. Barnard: "SUMMARY: simple regex question"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

Thanks for the replies so far.

The consesus is that the $ in an /etc/shadow password
entry indicates that a newer encryption scheme is being
used to encrypt /etc/shadow entries (such as MD5).

Does anyone know how to force Solaris 9 to encrypt
ONLY using the standard UNIX encryption algorithm
(crypt)?

And if I do this, will this "break" any accounts whose
passwords have been encrypted using MD5 or other encryption
algorithms?

I would expect so, but just wanted to verify.

Thanks again in advance.

Stanley E. Laufer
Network Administrator
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers

• Next message: jordan.j.gaston@verizon.com: "ROUTING WEIRDNESS!!!"
• Previous message: Christopher L. Barnard: "SUMMARY: simple regex question"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:30:05 EDT