From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 3 17:42:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A15156D2 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 17:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA06521; Mon, 3 May 1999 19:38:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 19:38:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Robert Watson , Poul-Henning Kamp , The Tech-Admin Dude , Brian Beaulieu , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish Message-ID: <19990503193836.D1229@netalpha.net> References: <372C19F5.625BB2B@vangelderen.org> <23332.925637575@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <23332.925637575@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, May 02, 1999 at 02:32:55AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 02:32:55AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Jordan K. Hubbard remarked > > Erm, one of the goals of PAM is to support *multiple* encryption > methods, so why not do a PAM module for each and let the administrator > decide which authentication methods to support in /etc/pam.conf? So how far are we from being able to say 'Accept DES, prefer MD5, and always use MD5 for new passwords' with PAM? What pieces are we missing? -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller MF4839 http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message