On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:35 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis writes: > > > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:07 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > >> Run 'authconfig'. > >> > >> You should have both “Use MD5 Passwords” and “Use Shadow Passwords” checked > >> under the “Authentication” section. > >> -- > > Sam, > > > > Thanks for helping. I ran authconfig and both MD5 and Shadow are > > checked. I did not see any parameter for the length of the password in > > authconfig! > > > > Any other ideas? > > Traditional crypted passwords that use DES are limited to eight characters > due to the built-in nature of the DES algorithm. MD5 passwords can be of > any length. > > It looks like for some reason you're using DES to encrypt your passwords, > when you should be using MD5. > > Your /etc/pam.d/system-auth file should include: > > password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow > > And your /etc/pam.d/passwd file should contain: > > password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth > > Perhaps something overwrote various files in your /etc/pam.d directory. > Thank you for your time and suggestion! I checked both files and the proper entry is present in both files. This is a fresh install, and the only unusual change that I made was to change the name of the machine. This has caused a problem with gnome not recognizing the machine name properly at the time of logon. I have not been able to debug that yet. There may be other things I have not recognized as important but that is the only problem I have had. Everything else went smoothly.
