Re: [PATCH] Use SHA-512 for password encoding by default.

[Niels de Vos <niels devos wincor-nixdorf com>]

David Cantrell wrote:
> Encode passwords using SHA-512 by default.  Users can override
> this in a Kickstart file using the 'auth' command.  The options
> below determine the algorithm used:
> 
>     --enablemd5  -or-  --passalgo=md5        MD5
>     --passalgo=sha256                        SHA-256
>     --passalgo=sha512                        SHA-512

Please don't forget to update the User Guide with these new options for
Kickstart. Now I've come to think of it, the User Guide this never gets
discussed on this ml, not even CC-ed about it. Oh, well...

Niels

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