[KLUG Members] MD5 passwd problem

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I have a Suse 9.3 Pro server with ypserv. When I add a user and set
> their password using passwd, they get the longer MD5 passwords starting
> with the $1$. The Suse clients seem ok with it.
> However, the RH 9 and RH Enterprise clients don't let me login. If I do
> a ypcat passwd from the RH clients I can see the account and the
> encrypted password so I know it is making it to the client. 
> Do I have to update something or modify PAM configs on the RH boxes to
> get them to use the stronger encryption? If so, can anyone show me how?

Adding the "md5" directive to the pam_unix module in the global (system-auth?) 
PAM file in /etc/pam.d should work.  I'm pretty certain RH9 supported MD5 
passwords.