[CentOS] 6.2 and login.defs

John Doe

jdmls at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 22 11:30:06 UTC 2011


Hi,

After the 6.2 upgrade, the new /etc/login.defs has:
  ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512 instead of MD5Is it safe to just apply the change?
Will my current MD5 passwords in /etc/passwd still work and only new passwords will be SHA512?
Or are they automatically "converted" (rehashed) to SHA512?

Thx,
JD



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