Re: "linux single" security problem

[Eddie Kuns <ekuns kilroy chi il us>]

bkosse iname com said:
] It's no less secure. Unix password encryption is dreadfully stupid.
] Give cracklib about 2 days tops to break damn near any password. 

So tell PAM to use md5 checksums instead of the usual password mechanism.  
It's a stronger encryption (I think) and allows longer passwords.

                       Eddie

P.S.  On cleartext passwords in lilo.conf -- hopefully one would never use 
a root password or other password as the lilo password!  As long as the 
lilo password is not used elsewhere, you're certainly no less secure and 
arguably much more secure than you are without one.  (As long as lilo.conf 
is mode 600)

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