MD5 Password Encryption Mechanism

[Anand AS]

I am using HP-UX 11.31. I need to enable MD5 password encryption mechanism.

Should I make any changes in pam.conf? or somewhere else?

Can anyone help me out in this issue?

[Shinji Teragaito_1]

SHA-512 password hashing is available for 11.23 and 11.31 from the software depot web site:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=PHI

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=PHI11i3

How about using Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 as your backend server ?

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=RHDirSvr

This information may not directly fill your needs. But I hope this helps you.

[Armin Kunaschik]

MD5 is no encryption mechanism! If it was one would be able to calculate the password from the crypt string. It's a hash algorithm.
And (as far I know) it's not available on HP-UX but only on Linux.

If you want to implement cross platform authentication you're stuck with DES passwords (e.g. with NIS or LDAP).

If you just want to use another hash algorithm, use the above mentioned PHI software.

My 2 cents,
Armin

PS: Assign points if you find answers useful!