On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The main issue that occurs when you change the 5000 rounds is running
into
mixed environments. You quickly find that while the password format has a
format which allows for you to set the number of rounds.. a lot of places
assume that 5000 is what is being used. You then have the "I can't login to
X" where X is some addon to the Oracle/SAP/etc system and you can't do your
vacation time. To deal with that is a larger issue than just the security
team in that you need to say "We realize that the product change is going to
affect usage in non-Fedora-only environment.
Thanks for the response. I don't understand how software ignores the
rounds value specified in /etc/shadow but honors the salt specified in
same. Assuming should only happen if /etc/shadow omits $rounds=.
> OS X 10.10 has been out some months and hashcat doesn't have
OS X
> 10.10 support yet, and they distinguish between each major OS X
> version 10.4 through 10.9. Clearly Apple changes there hashing method
> between each OS X release.
>
Sometimes they do.. sometimes they don't. The main issue is where the
password is stored and the format it is stored in versus the method. [They
used the same method for a couple but changed how it looked.] They can't
change it too much because they have to deal with the fact that user X has a
MacOS-X 10.9 and 10.10 box and may need to work in an environment where box
A and B are using the same password.
The context is the local shadow file in both the Fedora (above) and OS X cases.
If the environment is using directory services (Active/Open Directory,
LDAP) then I could even be using an OS X 10.6 system for this, using
the same password. And all such setups are kerberized and hence
standardized.
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Chris Murphy