[lug] [OT] More SunOS, Solaris, crypt() and MD5

[John Hernandez]

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This paper may be of interest:

http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/pam.pdf

~From the looks of it, Solaris 9 is supporting MD5 and cousins by way of
the pam_ldap module.  In a non-network setting, I suppose an ldap server
on the loopback may suffice.

D. Stimits wrote:
| In glibc Linux, using the special salt to crypt() that begins with "$1$"
| causes the single DES to instead be replaced with MD5 as the hash algo.
| It seems from the man page for crypt() on Solaris that MD5 is not
| available. Is there another common function which provides MD5 or strong
| hash? I can't imagine any semi-modern system not using strong hashes for
| passwords these days, I'm wondering what non-free commercial UNIX-like
| systems use?
|
| D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
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