On Aug 27, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Darod Zyree <darodzyree at gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-08-27 16:07 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Agasse <baptiste.agasse at lyra-network.com >> : > >> >> >> ----- Mail original ----- >>> Hi, >>> >>> Whats the new way of creating sha512 passwords in EL7? >> >> >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sec-GRUB_2_Password_Protection.html#sec-Password_Encryption >> >>> In Centos6 I used grub-crypt but that does not exist anymore. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> >> -- >> Baptiste AGASSE >> Lyra Network, Service Systèmes et Réseaux >> 109 Rue de l'innovation, 31670 Labège - France >> Tél: (+33)5.67.22.31.87 >> Fax: (+33)5.67.22.31.61 >> Mail: baptiste.agasse at lyra-network.com >> Site: http://www.lyra-network.com >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > But this is for creating passwords for grub2, no? > > I was asking (altough might not have been clear enough) on how to get the > encrypted values for the shadow file entries. > grub-crypt used to be able to do that, returning with the encrypted value > of a given passphrase starting with $6$ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Its the default hash used on EL7 by the “passwd” command. [root at centos7 etc]# grep dgoldsmith /etc/shadow dgoldsmith:$6$IoGARIF2$44lyu/9VjFmGsOW (line truncated) [root at centos7 etc]# tail -3 /etc/login.defs # Use SHA512 to encrypt password. ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512 -- David Goldsmith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 204 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140827/b510e7c5/attachment-0004.sig>