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l3git.h4cker
August 11th, 2009, 07:18 PM
I have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server, and was wondering how to change PAM and the way it encrypts /etc/shadow's passwords from MD5 to SHA.

Is this possible? If so, how might I do this?

EDIT -> nvm, I found out how to use blowfish

cdenley
August 12th, 2009, 08:47 AM
SHA-512 support in PAM was not present until ubuntu 8.10.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=924435&page=2