Re: [webmin-l] MD5 Hashing

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

If you run that command at the shell prompt as root and enter
username password
does it output OK or ERR depending on whether they are valid or not?

  - Jamie

Nilsson Christian wrote:
> Hi Jamie!
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> I've tried that but I only get Login failed please try again?
> This is what I put into the authentication module on "external auth prog".
> 
> /usr/local/squid/libexec/digest_pw_auth -c /usr/local/squid/etc/users
> 
> 
> Christian Nilsson
> Scania Infomate, XIPTO
> Unix Technician
> Midrange Servers
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Cameron [mailto:jca...@we...] 
> Sent: den 18 september 2003 00:58
> To: web...@li...
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] MD5 Hashing
> 
> 
> Webmin does have the ability to check a user's password using the same 
> kind of external authentication program as Squid uses. To set this up, 
> do the followinging :
> 
> 1) Go to the Webmin Configuration module, click on Authentication and 
> fill in the 'External squid-style authentication program'
> 
> 2) Go to the Webmin Users module, click on a user and change his 
> password to 'External authentication program' from the menu.
> 
>  From now on, whenever he logs in webmin will call that program in 
> just the same way Squid does to check the username and password, 
> ensuring that they stay in sync.
> 
>   - Jamie
> 
> Nilsson Christian wrote:
> 
>>OK!
>>Thanks!
>>Is there any other solution to the problem to syncronize 
>>user/passwords between webmin and squid digest auth which uses plain 
>>text or HHA1(from what I understand is some form of MD5 hashing.)and I 
>>don't want to use plain text?
>>
>>
>>
>>Christian Nilsson
>>Scania Infomate, XIPTO
>>Unix Technician
>>Midrange Servers
>> 
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jamie Cameron [mailto:jca...@we...]
>>Sent: den 17 september 2003 13:21
>>To: web...@li...
>>Subject: Re: [webmin-l] MD5 Hashing
>>
>>
>>Nilsson Christian wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>I wonder how i make webmin users use MD5 hashing instead of crypt if
>>>its
>>>not syncronized with the OS?
>>>(I have the MD5 Perl module installed.)
>>
>>
>>You can't - it always uses crypt, to avoid any dependency on the MD5
>>perl module. However, this does sound like quite a good feature idea ..
>>
>>  - Jamie