YaST will walk you through the
four pages of settings.
Some of these items may be perplexing. Read the helpful descriptions for each setting in
the left pane of the screen when deciding how to handle each setting. The following list
looks at a few:
. Password Plausibility Test??”Enforces some of the rules for passwords suggested in the
previous section.
. Password Encryption Method??”There are three. By default, YaST chooses the
Blowfish method at all three levels. This open-source algorithm was developed by
security expert Bruce Schneier in 1993 and is faster and safer than the other two
choices. Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption was developed by the U.S.
government in the mid-1970s and was the original free encryption algorithm.
Passwords using this method are limited to eight characters. MD5 transforms a data
string of any length into a shorter, fixed-length value. No two strings of data will
produce the same hash value.
. UpdateDB??”This program runs daily and works with the locate program to quickly
find files. If Root runs UpdateDB, all files are updated.
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