Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From:	Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-hardened] Moving from md5 to sha512 shadow password hashes
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:21:38
Message-Id:	`20090325042130.GA8824@home.power`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-hardened] Moving from md5 to sha512 shadow password hashes by Gordon Malm

1	Hi!
2
3	On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53:07AM -0700, Gordon Malm wrote:
4	> To attain sha512 shadow password hash capability one must:
5	> 1. Upgrade to >=sys-libs/glibc-2.8
6	> 2. Compile (+install) >=sys-libs/pam-1 against >=sys-libs/glibc-2.8
7	> 3. Compile (+install) >=sys-auth/pambase-20081028 with USE="sha512" (enabled
8	> by default)
9	>
10	> # fgrep '$1$' /etc/shadow
11
12	According to that fgrep command it looks like I've already used sha512
13	shadow password hash for some time (before that glibc release) with:
14
15	sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3
16	sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1
17	sys-libs/pam-1.0.4
18	sys-auth/pambase-20081028
19
20	--
21	WBR, Alex.

Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-hardened] Moving from md5 to sha512 shadow password hashes	Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××××××××××××.com>