[Rt-devel] Password storage format in RT3.6

[Jesse Vincent]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:13:03PM +0200, Arne Georg Gleditsh wrote:
> Jesse Vincent wrote:
> >Having asked around, I'm told that changing this would break PAM
> >compatibility, which scares me more than a little.
> 
> Surprising.  Normal "md5-crypt" on every Unix I'm aware of is salted 
> md5, and this is handled by pam out of the box.  Not knowing the details 
> of RT's "PAM compatibility" it's hard to comment either way, though.
> 
> Could we get some more details on this perceived breakage?

I'll poke harder at my informant and see if I can shake loose any sane
justification.

Thanks!

Jesse



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