passwd default change from md5 to des?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 8 15:48:17 UTC 2012


On Saturday 07 January 2012 10:04, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> Hi Denys
> 
> Looks like commit 12a432715f066cf9d677316a39c9e0ebc6d72404 from May 2011
> changed the created passwords to be DES by default (over the previous
> default of MD5). This was not mentioned in the commit message.
> 
> Why the move to the more insecure option?
> 
> 
> To make this obvious to the users, could there be a config option for
> the default passwd hash method?

Yes. I created a config option for this. Please try current git.

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