[Linux-Discussion] question
- From: bobbya <bobbya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:16:41 -0700
John,
You have excellent questions. I don't have many users, and I fortunately still
have their passwords in a log book, all except 1 person, but I think I'll let
him know before I do the upgrade so that he can change his password in his
email setup on his browser.
So you think that even if it is not backward compatible that it is worth the
tradeoff. Hey, here is another question. After, hopefully,
I get some new users, I should write their passwords in my log so that if
anything happens in the future, I can recreate their
accounts; like I'm doing right now.
Here is the question:
I don't like having to write down a user's password everytime I create an
account. I tried "script", but it did not record the key
strokes while I was inside of "script". It seems that the only way to keep
track of "users - passwords" is to write them down?
Robert
> > I'm upgrading from an older version of Linux to the newer Red Hat 7.2
> > My question is that 7.2 provides for longer than 8 character passwords,
> > but if I install with that
> > feature, then my password files won't be compatible with standard Linux
> > or Unix and they won't be portable either.
> > Does anyone have a better insight on this. Of course the advantage is
> > that longer passwords means better security.
>
> The difference here is that they're now using a hashing scheme that supports
> more than 8 characters, probably MD5-crypt. This is a really good thing,
> even if it's not backwards-compatible with older Redhats.
>
> How many users do you have? Would it be such a big deal to reset all of
> them?
>
> John
>
> --
> John Madden
> UNIX Systems Engineer
> Ivy Tech State College
> jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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