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I have found, that if I change the pam_password setting in /etc/pam_ldap.conf from md5 to exop, the passwd utility now creates ssha entries; or, rather, the passwd...

Amen, brother. But, unfortunately, the clients are a reality that we have to deal with. The best we can do is minimize the exposure and try to educate the users to practice safe computing. ...

I have a Centos 6.2 server freshly updated. It is authenticating against an Ldap server, and I am having an issue with the hashing algorithms being used by various utilities and servers.

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125+ normal, commercial websites on one of our VMs running Centos 6.2. Really, the number of sites is only limited to the amount of traffic the network interface can handle. Today's Linux kernels...

Sorry to disagree with some of you, but I have been using the 6-series for well over a year, and it is stable and reliable. Centos is primarily a server distro, and they focus on stability over all...

Another vote for Centos... Been using it since version 4, now running 6 on many, many servers and VMs. Stable, reliable, well thought out server platform without all the desktop and graphical fluff...

Sorry to hear of the compromise... It's a bad feeling, and I myself have a very hard time trusting a machine that has been compromised anymore.

Anyway, K.I.S.S. The simplest way for an attacker...

Cisco ASA. I prefer a hardware solution to a software fw.