From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Description of problem: FutureFeature It would be nice to include SUSE's pam_unix2 and libxcrypt into the Fedora distro in order to allow for easier transition from *BSD and also to allow for stronger password hashes. The pam_unix2 plugin is backwards compatible with md5 and DES password hashes, so integration into a future version should not be too difficult. The packages can be found in the current source distro of SUSE as well as here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/libxcrypt/ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/pam/pam_unix2 Make and install libxcrypt, then make and install pam_unix2. Change all pam_unix.so occurrences in /etc/pam.d/* to read pam_unix2.so. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This is an enhancement. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
We have already support for SHA256 and SHA512 password hashes which are strong enough and I do not see any serious reason for having pam_unix2 in Fedora. Also new packages get into Fedora this way: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers