Extraordin-Air Team Final Project Problem 23. -Jesse Statement of Problem: Figure out whether your machine does or does not usr MD5 hashed passwords.  Figure out how to switch it to the other state, and do so. Investigative Process: I happened to get lucky on this one.  We had used the setup program to do something else in class, and I had either noticed a switch for MD5 there, or at least had a sense that it was a good place to try.  I ran setup and wandered around until I found it. Recipe: Run setup at prompt (you must be root).  Choose "Authentication Configuration", then "next". On the following screen is a toggle for MD5 passwords. It was on when I found it. I'm going to turn it off now! Interestingly, upon exiting with this setting change, the system shuts down NIS services! Hmmm...