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10-01-2010
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Shadow file password policy
Today i was going through some of security guides written on linux .
Under shadow file security following points were mentioned. 1)The encrypted password stored under /etc/shadow file should have more than 14-25 characters. 2)Usernames in shadow file must satisfy to all the same rules as usernames in /etc/passwd. 3)password for application Username should display * if username is not locked. 4)If a user is locked it should be displayed as ! as the first character in second field of shadow file. Confusion for point 1 and 2: Now i m confused as why the encrypted password should be more than 14-25 characters. Also what rules to satisfy How to check it? Confusion for point 3 and 4: There are lot of users with * as second field i guess they are not locked but according to 4th point there are lot of users with ! as first characters. How would i check whether they are actually locked or not. I m posting the output of /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files for the account. /etc/passwd Quote:
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10-01-2010
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To check the status of an account you can issue following on Linux: Code:
$> passwd -S sshd sshd L 05/30/2007 0 99999 7 -1 From the man page of passwd: Code:
-S, --status
Display account status information. The status information consists of 7 fields. The first field is the users login name. The second
field indicates if the user account has a locked password (L), has no password (NP), or has a usable password (P). The third field gives
the date of the last password change. The next four fields are the minimum age, maximum age, warning period, and inactivity period for the
password. These ages are expressed in days.About the rules with the 14-25 characters for password length I would not worry since the binaries and libraries dealing with that usually work as intended. Also something from the man page of shadow that might help: Code:
encrypted password
Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is interpreted.
If the password field contains some string that is not a valid result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, the user will not be able to use a
unix password to log in (but the user may log in the system by other means).
This field may be empty, in which case no passwords are required to authenticate as the specified login name. However, some applications
which read the /etc/shadow file may decide not to permit any access at all if the password field is empty.
A password field which starts with a exclamation mark means that the password is locked. The remaining characters on the line represent
the password field before the password was locked. |
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10-01-2010
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are you referring to login by super user and issue su <locked username>? ---------- Post updated at 03:49 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:30 AM ---------- P.S: I would also like to know the GID range of my distribution . I can find the UID range by examining UID of nobody user but how would i find the same for GID. |
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10-01-2010
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Into a locked account can't be logged in, not by any other means - that's why it is locked. Even if you try to su - from root to the locked account, this will not be possible to access it (try it out).
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10-01-2010
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This contradict the above post by you.
---------- Post updated at 03:53 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:52 AM ---------- 4)If a user is locked it should be displayed as ! as the first character in second field of shadow file. |
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10-01-2010
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Maybe I should read what I copy and paste to it's full length. I do not know other means they talk about or at least did not try any out - maybe another member of the forum can give you the answer or you just try out yourself some available to you. Maybe using PAM and bypassing normal Unix login methods, idk. To check the maximal value of a gid, I guess you take a look into your distributions header files in /usr/include (I checked on a Debian Linux): Code:
somebox:/usr/include/bits> grep -i gid typesizes.h #define __GID_T_TYPE __U32_TYPE somebox:/usr/include/bits> grep __U32_TYPE types.h #define __U32_TYPE unsigned int __STD_TYPE __U32_TYPE __socklen_t; I am not totally sure but I think that is what defines the max for the gid in the system. On a 32-bit system this would 2^32-1 ie. 4294967295 afaik. Just out of curiosity - why do you need to know that? |
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10-01-2010
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Nice question .I was written in the security manual that all GID must be within range for the distribution.
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Instead i got it under /usr/include/pppd/pppd.h Quote:
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---------- Post updated at 05:07 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:02 AM ---------- Do you think its int as i got following. Quote:
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