Re: sha rootpw encryption in ks.cfg

[Jason Kohles <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Phillip Groven wrote:

 

In my ks.cfg files I encrypt the root password using grub-md5-crypt

 

According to the below article I an use sha512

How can I encrypt the password using sha?

The article you quoted tells you how to do that....

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

What version of Red Hat is Rawhide?

Rawhide isn't a specific version, it's an automatically built distribution of whatever the latest versions of all the packages are in the source repository.  It's intended for use by developers doing testing and it is frequently broken or unstable.  What the comment means is that if you want it now you have to get it from Rawhide and hope you can make it work, otherwise you have to wait until the next release, which will include these changes.

Tips and tricks: Choosing the password hashing algorithm for /etc/shadow during installation

by Alexander Todorov

This is a new feature that has been requested in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line. The supported algorithms are DES,MD5, and SHA-256/512. They will be available after the upcoming updates releases as well as in Rawhide. The new algorithms will be configurable via Kickstart only. Here is the correct code.

DES

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=descrypt

rootpw fedora

MD5

authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5

rootpw fedora

or

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=md5

rootpw fedora

SHA-256

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha256

rootpw fedora

SHA-512

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

rootpw fedora

 

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