Re: [PATCH] offers users MD5, SHA-256, or SHA-512

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

David Cantrell (dcantrell redhat com) said: 
> > > I thought about that, but it seems like a reasonable setting to have in the UI.
> > > There may be instances where a Fedora users wants to stick with an algorithm
> > > other than our default for one reason or another (I have no idea, but there's
> > > got to be a reason...copying shadow files among distributions maybe or among
> > > different operating systems, using some service that can't--for whatever
> > > reason--deal with anything but, say, SHA-256).
> > 
> > Then why isn't there an option for crypt() style passwords in the UI?
> 
> Because there wasn't one before and I was only adding SHA-256 and SHA-512.
> But I can add DES.

No, I'm saying if it was actually a good idea to expose it in the UI, we
would already have done it. It's exposing a choice that for 99.99% of users
is irrelevant.

Bill