Re: password algorithm with authconfig vs authselect

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On 21.04.21 22:56, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Leon Fauster <leonfauster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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


Chris, this seems to be a very reasonable approach! Nevertheless I
noticed while testing that these config files also need to be managed

# grep 512 /etc/libuser.conf /etc/login.defs
/etc/libuser.conf:crypt_style = sha512
/etc/login.defs:ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512

At least authselect's profile mechanism is a good starting point to
adapt my workflow.

Thanks!
Leon




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