Once upon a time, Leon Fauster leonfauster@googlemail.com said:
How does the new "way" looks like (>=EL8), to switch the password algorithm?
It looks like authselect doesn't support that.
While authconfig tried to be a super-multi-tool that knew how to configure all the things, I think it got to a point where it was too difficult to maintain (keeping track of which options were required, conflicted with each other, etc.). So authselect instead ships a pre-set group of config files that have been tested, with some options in them.
Right now, the password algorithm is always sha512. I think that could be turned into what authselect calls a "feature", but I'm not sure (that'd be a good request for the project, using their project page at https://github.com/authselect/authselect). It looks like features might support only enable/disable, not custom string values.
The "officially correct" way to do that today seems to be to create a custom profile (which can be based on an existing profile), change the values, then apply the custom profile. This seems like a lot to just set the algorithm, but I'm guessing that at this point, there aren't many requests to do that (so it isn't a well-supported thing to change).
It looks like something like this might do it:
authselect create-profile sha256 --base-on=sssd sed -i 's/sha512/sha256/g' /etc/authselect/custom/sha256/* authselect select custom/sha256