In the old days I could do # authconfig --passalgo=sha256 --update With EL8 comes authselect now (replacement of authconfig). authselect --passalgo=sha512 --update does not work and seems to be unsupported. # grep -R passalgo /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/ /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat_Options.py: Option.UnsupportedValued ("passalgo", _("<descrypt|bigcrypt|md5|sha256|sha512>")), How does the new "way" looks like (>=EL8), to switch the password algorithm? Any hints would be great ... -- Leon