[relnotes] SHA password support

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Mon Oct 8 02:16:08 UTC 2007


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The glibc in F8 has now support for passwords using SHA256 and SHA512
hashing.  Before only DES and MD5 were available.  The tools to create
passwords are not yet extended but if such passwords are created in
others ways we can now work with it.  You can point

  http://people.redhat.com/drepper/sha-crypt.html

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