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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