[BlueOnyx:09927] Re: Importing users that have DES passwords

[Jeff Folk]

On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Ernie wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> most linux defaults to DES, you have to edit /etc/login.defs variable
> ENCRYPT_METHOD to get it to use MD5 or SHA for the shadow password file.
> 
> Are you saying that if I set ENCRYPT_METHOD to DES before I import the users,
> that the scripts in the GUI won't be able to deal with it?
> 
> 
> - Ernie.

I don't know about _most_ ... But RHEL/Red Hat defaults to MD5 for quite some time... I've got CentOS 4, 5, and SL 6 boxes... MD5 - bone stock.