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Shadow hardening

Shadow hardening

Posted Mar 22, 2012 17:11 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
Parent article: Shadow hardening

blowfish password is available in the PAM module libpam-unix2 available at least in Debian and SuSE since years, so why glibc need to be patched ?


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Shadow hardening

Posted Mar 22, 2012 19:50 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Because it's not in upstream glibc.

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