[plug] MD5 convert [solution]

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Brian Tombleson wrote:

> Thanks Tony, but that wasn't it. (passwd package does not use debconf).

Hmmm does on my machine.  sid current from uwa asof 06:00am this morning.
 
> However, it is as simple as editting /etc/pam.d/login and appending "md5" to
> the password directive.
> Hope this can help someone else in the future.

You need to do the same on all the /etc/pam.d files  otherwise you wont create
new passwords in MD5 format.


Yours Tony.

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