Secure Java apps on Linux using MD5 crypt (IBM developerWorks)

[Posted January 16, 2006 by cook]

Vladimir Silva shows how to interface Java to the PAM system in an IBM developerWorks article. "If you are a security developer and need to interface a Java application with the local operating system user registry, what do you do? This article gives you the answer: UNIX/Linux PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module)-compatible systems that use authentication based on the GNU MD5 extensions to the crypt() system call. I'll describe these extensions and show you a Java implementation of MD5 crypt (using FreeBSD as my UNIX)."

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