changing password hashing to something other than md5 in /etc/shadow

[Tony E - Jaraeth]

I believe you would have to change the underlying code of the Shadow
utilities code to do anything other than MD5/DES.  Nothing is mentioned
in the HOWTO's about changing encryption as it seems to use the systems
underlying crypt() functions... afaik.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO.html


  Tony E.




Technomage-hawke wrote:
> ok,
> 
> * I've googled for it (no luck, but certainly lots of 'interesting' reading 
> material)
>  * I've tried reading all the syste. documentation I can find
> 
> * I've even tried hunting down the files to allow this.
> 
> how do I hanged the hashing algorithm used in /etc/shadow?
> I need to use something other than MD5 or DES (was looking at whirlpool, AES, 
> sha-5 or above).
> 
> some suggestions please?
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